Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
A-19
A-35
B-18
Nikhil Kumbhar
Omkar Warekar
Sneha Panicker
Key Parties
The United States Government
National Security Agency (NSA)
U.S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC)
Tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo,
etc)
Major Acts
Protect America Act, 2007
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 2008
What is PRISM?
PRISM
Anti-terrorism mass surveillance
Data Mining Programme
Special Source Operation tool
Collects private user data from companies
Like Google, Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc)
Launched in 2007 by NSA along
with the British Agency, GCHQ
(Government Communication Headquarters)
Current Providers
Collected data
Format of
Yahoo!
Videos
Photos
Stored Data
PalTalk
Youtube
Skype
AOL
Apple
File Transfers
Video Conferencing
Notifications of targets activitieslogins, etc
Online Social Networking details
Special Requests
Micros
oft
(2007)
PalTal
k
(2009)
Yahoo
(2008)
Youtu
be
(2010)
Googl
e
Faceb
ook
(2009)
(2009)
Skype
Apple
(2011)
(2012)
Snowden Files
Snowden stated, I dont want
to live in a society that does
these sort of things,
motivated by civic duty
Revealed himself 3 days after
PRISM reports were published
Left U.S to avoid capture,
taking refuge in Hong Kong
Later fled Hong Kong for
Moscow and has requested
asylum in Ecuador and Russia