PRISM does not collect everything, says NSA, but it targets suspicious email addresses and phone numbers.
According to her top lawyers services who participated in a public hearing in front of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the intelligence agency does not collect all the data in circulation, but had tailored the program to monitor or uncover suspected terrorists and other threats to national security. better safetys.
"We know what we want and we get it, because the collection δεδομένων είναι στοχευμένη και όχι χύμα”, δήλωσε ο Robert Litt, γενικός σύμβουλος στο γραφείο του διευθυντή της Εθνικής Υπηρεσίας Πληροφοριών.
He also stated that the service does not collect keywords nor scans emails or other messages trafficked by major technology companies.
PRISM was one of the first NSA programs revealed by Edward Snowden. The publications then reported that the PRISM program was collecting data directly from major tech companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft.
Several months later, NSA executives claim that PRISM is not the program that collects everything we all knew it was, but a very program-oriented, goal-oriented program, ie suspected of terrorist actions,
The National Security Service, as well as the other secret services, are rather trying to calm public opinion, as their actions have an immediate cost, not so much to themselves as they are still doing their job, but to the big technology companies.
What serious company, which thinks to put its data in the cloud, will dare to do it on US servers? So the secret service is trying to prove to us (?) Claiming that things were not as bad as it looked, and that the programs were in fact under close supervision to keep the law. (rather soon we should apologize for the service)
While this may have been the official history of the NSA, the Congressional Intelligence Service's Congressional Committee has admitted not being aware of many NSA activities, while the Pentagon guard recently said that he had absolutely no idea about the mass the data collection organization.
Of course, it is worth mentioning that at the same hearing, the NSA's top lawyers stated that despite official denials from the major companies involved named in the leaked PRISM files, the companies knew about the project. What they didn't know was the name of (PRISM), but this does not change the fact that they had delivered the requested information.
