Remember PRISM? Congress is secretly discussing it next week
Jan28
on January 28, 2016
at 8:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Bob Goodlatte, Echoworx, Ed Snowden, eff, FISA Amendments Act, Insider, Opinion, prism, USA Freedom Act
It’s been almost three years since Edward Snowden revealed that US law enforcers had direct access into the servers of companies like Apple, Google and Facebook, enabling them to read emails, live chats and browser search history. Doesn’t time fly? But, in the great world of news, the PRISM monitoring program has fallen right off the radar in the US and elsewhere, as government and tech companies grapple over encryption, along with the linguistics of mass-surveillance, or bulk collection. In fact, we even told you to forget about it. Well, PRISM looks like it’s back, with the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee, the ‘lawyer for the House’ to…
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