BY DAILY MAIL REPORTER:
The National Security Agency and the FBI have been pulling personal data directly from the main servers of nine top U.S. tech giants as part of a top-secret initiative dubbed PRISM, it was revealed today.
The Washington Post, which broke the news Thursday, reported that for the past six years, U.S. intelligence agencies have been extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails, documents and other information to track people’s movements and contacts.
The Silicon Valley companies involved in the PRISM program are Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and the lesser known Internet company PalTalk, which has hosted a lot of traffic during the Arab Spring and the on-going Syrian civil war.
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