In June, the Guardian revealed that “the NSA claimed to have "direct access" through the Prism program to the systems of many major internet companies, including Microsoft, Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo. Blanket orders from the secret surveillance court allow these communications to be collected without an individual warrant if the NSA operative has a 51% belief that the target is not a US citizen and is not on US soil at the time. Targeting US citizens does require an individual warrant, but the NSA is able to collect Americans' communications without a warrant if the target is a foreign national located overseas.” ( Page 2 & 3, Glenn Greenwald) When it come to your own personal information it’s you personal freedom to have your …show more content…
When they do this there's seven levels of people which connects all the information to one person. So if the NSA has to find information they can connect them all together in one area because it's faster for them to find information. The NSA used a program called PRISM which basically when the nsa has to funnel information they chose the top seven companies because this provided them with a lot of data and when they had to find a person whose appart of a terror network they can find there geolocation based off their phone without the person knowing. When you do this the military can use this data to send bombs to kill them based off their data and because they can do this they can find the people connected the the terror network so they can take out the top level people to cripple the …show more content…
The NSA used a program called PRISM which basically when the nsa has to funnel information they chose the top seven companies because this provided them with a lot of data and when they had to find a person they just made a search. At the end they shut down the program and we don't know what happened to all the information. If this information freaks you out i recommend you don't post things that you don't want the world to see. At the end the government “ shut down” thanks to Edward Snowden who shared information about this whole operation. Then later released to the public and Edward Snowden ran to Russia for protection for releasing information about the Prism Program. Still to this day Edward Snowden lives in Russia and now a movie came out about Edward Snowden. At the end the nsa collected data from the public and used it for military operations, business operations and able to search thru private information just like searching google. I think that Edward Snowden should be charged for stealing data to prove that the nsa was doing secret operations with secret money and taxpayer money without supervision, so they can roam free and do what they want and make the rules as they