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10 FACTS ABOUT AMERICA'S NOTORIOUS CYBER SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME
10 facts about America’s notorious cyber surveillance programme
By Ankit Grover on June 12, 2013
A leaked document disclosed the monumental scale of the US Government’s surveillance of phone records around the world, part of a massive data collection programme, spearheaded by its National Security Agency (NSA).
China, US play snooping game, India miles behind
Manning revealed sensitive names to WikiLeaks, says US Army
The NSA’s secret data-mining tool – Boundless Informant – part of its PRISM programme, collects the telephone records of millions of Americans and taps into computers of many Internet services to retrieve information about foreigners living outside the US.
It has been able to retrieve at least 97 billion pieces of information all around the world in March 2013 alone, according to The Guardian.
Here are 10 facts about the highly controversial clandestine spy programme:
1
The Guardian newspaper published a highly classified US court order that allowed the US Government access to all of Verizon's phone records on a daily basis, for both domestic and international calls.
2
The document leaked to The Guardian by a 29-year old intelligence contractor named Edward Snowden reveals that, in the name of national security, the US Government sweeps up the call records of Americans who have no known ties to terrorists or criminals.
3
Iran tops the list of countries which have been under the NSA's scanner. More than 14 billion reports have been retrieved from the Iran in March 2013 alone. Pakistan came in second with 13.5 billion inputs, followed by close US ally Jordan and Egypt with 12.7 billion and 7.6 billion inputs respectively.
4
India is the fifth most-tracked nation according to The Guardian report that claims the NSA collected at least 6.3 billion pieces of information from the country. This is despite the fact that India and US participate in a bilateral cyber-security dialogue.
5
The Ministry of External Affairs has termed any violation of privacy of Indian citizens as 'unacceptable' and will seek details from the NSA in the cyber-security dialogue.
6
PRISM is being linked to tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Paltalk, Google's YouTube and Microsoft's Skype. While Apple issued a statement saying it has 'never heard of PRISM,' Google has asked the Obama administration to disclose more details about the US Government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet.
7
PRISM dumps massive amounts of data from users all over the world into the NSA's computers, and much of that comes from the accounts of American citizens. All this information lives on NSA computer servers.
8
The Obama administration has defended the programme as a 'sacrifice' vital to the protection of Americans. Obama said: "You cannot have 100 per cent security with 100 per cent privacy."
9
Snowden, who leaked the explosive documents to The Guardian, has now gone in hiding in Hong Kong, which has an extradition treaty with the United States. Russia, which has not signed any such treaty with the US, may offer refuge to the whistleblower.
10
Bradley Manning, a former US soldier is undergoing trial in the US for leaking sensitive information to whistleblower site WikiLeaks.
By Ankit Grover on June 12, 2013
A leaked document disclosed the monumental scale of the US Government’s surveillance of phone records around the world, part of a massive data collection programme, spearheaded by its National Security Agency (NSA).
China, US play snooping game, India miles behind
Manning revealed sensitive names to WikiLeaks, says US Army
The NSA’s secret data-mining tool – Boundless Informant – part of its PRISM programme, collects the telephone records of millions of Americans and taps into computers of many Internet services to retrieve information about foreigners living outside the US.
It has been able to retrieve at least 97 billion pieces of information all around the world in March 2013 alone, according to The Guardian.
Here are 10 facts about the highly controversial clandestine spy programme:
1
The Guardian newspaper published a highly classified US court order that allowed the US Government access to all of Verizon's phone records on a daily basis, for both domestic and international calls.
2
The document leaked to The Guardian by a 29-year old intelligence contractor named Edward Snowden reveals that, in the name of national security, the US Government sweeps up the call records of Americans who have no known ties to terrorists or criminals.
3
Iran tops the list of countries which have been under the NSA's scanner. More than 14 billion reports have been retrieved from the Iran in March 2013 alone. Pakistan came in second with 13.5 billion inputs, followed by close US ally Jordan and Egypt with 12.7 billion and 7.6 billion inputs respectively.
4
India is the fifth most-tracked nation according to The Guardian report that claims the NSA collected at least 6.3 billion pieces of information from the country. This is despite the fact that India and US participate in a bilateral cyber-security dialogue.
5
The Ministry of External Affairs has termed any violation of privacy of Indian citizens as 'unacceptable' and will seek details from the NSA in the cyber-security dialogue.
6
PRISM is being linked to tech giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Paltalk, Google's YouTube and Microsoft's Skype. While Apple issued a statement saying it has 'never heard of PRISM,' Google has asked the Obama administration to disclose more details about the US Government's demands for email and other personal information transmitted online in an effort to distance itself from an Internet dragnet.
7
PRISM dumps massive amounts of data from users all over the world into the NSA's computers, and much of that comes from the accounts of American citizens. All this information lives on NSA computer servers.
8
The Obama administration has defended the programme as a 'sacrifice' vital to the protection of Americans. Obama said: "You cannot have 100 per cent security with 100 per cent privacy."
9
Snowden, who leaked the explosive documents to The Guardian, has now gone in hiding in Hong Kong, which has an extradition treaty with the United States. Russia, which has not signed any such treaty with the US, may offer refuge to the whistleblower.
10
Bradley Manning, a former US soldier is undergoing trial in the US for leaking sensitive information to whistleblower site WikiLeaks.
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