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About PRISM

(Globaltimes.cn)

13:53, July 05, 2013

Program name: PRISM

Start time: 2007 (under President George W. Bush)

Prior program: Terrorist Surveillance Program

Managing department: National Security Agency (NSA)

Involving companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple

PRISM cost: $20m per year

Collection details: E-mail, Chat -video, voice, Videos, Photos, Stored data, VoIP, File transfers, Video Conferencing, Notifications of target activity -logins,etc., Online Social Networking details, Special Requests

Targeted objects: Potentially valuable foreign communications that might pass through US servers

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