[144][145][Notes 1] However, a Quinnipiac University poll conducted June 28 through July 8 found that 45% of registered voters think the surveillance programs have gone too far, with 40% saying they do not go far enough, compared to 25% saying they had gone too far and 63% saying not far enough in 2010. 11 0 obj PRISM. Congress is continually briefed on how these are conducted. Companies are legally obliged to comply with requests for users' communications under US law, but the Prism program allows the intelligence services direct access to the companies' servers. Israeli newspaper Calcalist discussed[103] the Business Insider article[104] about the possible involvement of technologies from two secretive Israeli companies in the PRISM program—Verint Systems and Narus. In reality, NSA reports more incidents of unauthorized use of data. The participation of the internet companies in Prism will add to the debate, ignited by the Verizon revelation, about the scale of surveillance by the intelligence services. After Carr replied that there was a legal framework to protect Australians but that the government would not comment on intelligence matters, Xenophon argued that this was not a specific answer to his question. "[154] Some question if the costs of hunting terrorists now overshadows the loss of citizen privacy. A far fuller picture of the exact operation of Prism, and the other surveillance operations brought to light, is expected to emerge in the coming weeks and months, but this slide gives a clearer picture of what Prism is – and, crucially, isn't. "[47] He went on to say, "Section 702 is a provision of FISA that is designed to facilitate the acquisition of foreign intelligence information concerning non-U.S. persons located outside the United States. PRISM. Explore the NSA documents in full below. Fisa court discovers unauthorized querying and demands answers, Order Regarding Preliminary Notice of Compliance Incident Dated January 15, 2009. Analysis. Below are a number of slides released by Edward Snowden showing the operation and processes behind the PRISM program. He is a fugitive from US law, in exile in Russia. According to a recent study, the majority of Americans believe that preserving the rights of US citizens is more important than preventing terrorist attacks. Clapper changed his account to say that he had simply forgotten about collection of domestic phone records. PRISM was publicly revealed when classified documents about the program were leaked to journalists of The Washington Post and The Guardian by Edward Snowden – at the time an NSA contractor – during a visit to Hong Kong. [88] The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop stated that the acts of Edward Snowden were treachery and offered a staunch defence of her nation's intelligence co-operation with the United States. "[188] In order to authorize the targeting, the attorney general and Director of National Intelligence need to obtain an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) pursuant to Section 702 or certify that "intelligence important to the national security of the United States may be lost or not timely acquired and time does not permit the issuance of an order. Analysis by the Guardian reveals that it was one of the least partisan votes — beaten only by food aid reform and flood protection — in a Congress defined by hardline partisanship. The names of many of the NSA’s “corporate partners” are so sensitive that they are classified as “ECI” — Exceptionally Controlled Information — a higher classification level than the Snowden documents cover. FAIRVIEW-slides Brazilian television and the O Globo website presented a whole new series of four slides from what seems to be a presentation about the FAIRVIEW program or maybe the broader "collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past", which was called "Upstream" in one of the PRISM-slides. The bulk collection of Americans’ phone call data would be enshrined in US law. During an end-to-end review of the NSA's technical infrastructure that I ordered in response to the compliance incident that the DoJ reported to the court on 15 January 2009, Court orders NSA to continue to collect metadata but not use it. Sat 8 Jun 2013 13.56 EDT In another classified report obtained by The Post, the arrangement is described as allowing 'collection managers [to send] content tasking instructions directly to equipment installed at company-controlled locations,' rather than directly to company servers. [17] The statement read in part, "The Guardian and The Washington Post articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "[163] The party-owned newspaper Liberation Daily described this surveillance like Nineteen Eighty-Four-style. Since the NSA revelations, Americans have become more opposed to government surveillance that infringes on civil liberties. The NSA in Germany: Snowden's Documents Available for Download. ", June 9, "This is well beyond what the Patriot Act allows. Google told the Guardian that it did not "have a back door for the government to access private user data". %PDF-1.7
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"[141][142] Simon had stated that many classes of people in American society had already faced constant government surveillance. The NSA sucks up much, much more. [212] Because the Google and Yahoo clouds span the globe, and because the tap was done outside of the United States, unlike PRISM, the MUSCULAR program requires no (FISA or other type of) warrants. They also explain Prism's ability to gather real-time information on live voice, text, email or internet chat services, as well as to analyse stored data. The NSA, in its defence, frequently argues that if today’s surveillance programs existed before 9/11, it might have been able to stop those attacks. Not all SIGADs involve upstream collection, for instance, data could be taken directly from a service provider, either by agreement (as is the case with PRISM), by means of hacking, or other ways. It would ban the collection of internet communication data; close loopholes that allow snooping on Americans without a warrant; reform the Fisa court; and provide some protection for companies faced with handing over data to the NSA. "[82], The U.S. military has acknowledged blocking access to parts of The Guardian website for thousands of defense personnel across the country,[83] and blocking the entire Guardian website for personnel stationed throughout Afghanistan, the Middle East, and South Asia. This report describes compliance issues identified by NSA during its end-to-end review of the metadata collection program. The internal NSA supervision is the only check of the analysts' determination; a further layer of supervision is added with stored communications, where the FBI checks against its own database to filter out known Americans. <> All such information is obtained with FISA Court approval and with the knowledge of the provider based upon a written directive from the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence." And federal judges are overseeing the entire program throughout. But they have all the partners doing it for them and then they share all the information. The revelation also supports concerns raised by several US senators during the renewal of the Fisa Amendments Act in December 2012, who warned about the scale of surveillance the law might enable, and shortcomings in the safeguards it introduces. The law allows for the targeting of any customers of participating firms who live outside the US, or those Americans whose communications include people outside the US. Clapper’s reply: “No, sir”. IC OFF THE … "[143], A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted June 11 through 13 found that 66% of Americans generally supported the program. The ICO has raised this with its European counterparts, and the issue is being considered by the European Commission, who are in discussions with the U.S. Maybe", "Mapping the Canadian Government's Telecommunications Surveillance", "Rules Shielding Online Data From N.S.A. In short, where previously the NSA needed individual authorisations, and confirmation that all parties were outside the USA, they now need only reasonable suspicion that one of the parties was outside the country at the time of the records were collected by the NSA.