Following yesterday’s revelations about the NSA’s data collection from Verizon comes a story from The Washington Post outlining PRISM, a systematic program of data collection from “nine leading U.S. Internet companies, audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs” that allow intelligence analysts to track foreign threats. The Privacy Advisor rounds up the story’s many angles and provides reactions that include calls for immediate suspension of Safe Harbor and other indications this may harm U.S.-EU trade relations.
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