The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is watching your emails, chat conversations, voice calls, documents and more since 2007.
The PRISM program of NSA that was leaked by NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by The Guardian and The Washington Post on June 6, 2013, claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, yahoo and skype.
PRISM is a clandestine national security electronic surveillance program operated by the United States NSA since 2007.
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at first, Silicon Valley executives insist they did not know of secret PRISM program that grants access to servers.
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then, In recent days, their strategy has shifted to admitting the NSA requests, espousing transparency by publishing their US request figures, while seeking to stress that they push back against requests they see as inappropriate.
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firm like Yahoo has claimed receiving between 12,000 and 13,000 requests, Apple receiving between 4,000 and 5,000 requests, Facebook said it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests in that six-month period, while Microsoft said it received between 6,000 and 7,000.
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