22.08.2013 - 17:49 [ Techdirt ]

Then And Now: What The NSA Said About PRISM vs. What Latest Declassified Document Says

If you don‘t follow this closely, it can be a bit difficult to parse out. The „upstream“ collection is the stuff we were just talking about concerning snarfing up data directly from telcos. This „non upstream“ data that is „obtained from Internet service providers“ is PRISM (as noted in a footnote), and is the program that the NSA and the White House kept insisting above are narrow and targeted. Yet, here, they‘re admitting that via PRISM, they‘re getting 91% of the internet communications they‘re collecting — which is 228 million records. Collected from tech companies via PRISM.