Report: PRISM Revealed To Be Part of a Larger Surveillance Program by the Government

Apparently it has been in place for years.

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Weeks ago it was revealed that the government had been spying on Americans with help from Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft and other major tech companies. Those companies have since denied granting the government "direct access" to its servers.

Now the AP is reporting that PRISM--the massive data collection effort by the NSA--is actually just a small part of an even bigger wiretapping program by the U.S. government that has been in place for years. 

Americans who disapprove of the government reading their emails have more to worry about from a different and larger NSA effort that snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet's backbone. 

"I'm much more frightened and concerned about real-time monitoring on the Internet backbone," said EastBanc Technologies CEO Wolf Ruzicka. "I cannot think of anything, outside of a face-to-face conversation, that they could not have access to."

Long story short: We're fucked.

[via AP]

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