NSA: US secret service reads with Facebook, Google, Yahoo & Co.

According to media reports, the US intelligence agency NSA has direct access to the servers of the country’s leading Internet companies and can read virtually any e-mail, photo, video or other private document. As the Washington Post reported, their templates and protocols were distributed about the “Prism” program, which has been kept secret until now. Through this program, companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple knowingly collaborate with the US intelligence service NSA and the FBI

The secret documents were sent to the newspaper by an intelligence officer who did not approve the serious violations of privacy. “They can literally see how you formulate your thoughts when you’re tapping,” the Washington Post quotes the intelligence staff. The data collection takes place directly from the servers of these services. The systematic spying on the private life of the Americans through the “Prism” program has been running since 2007, the extent of which has since grown very strongly.


Apple immediately denied the allegation of a cooperation in "Prism", other IT corporations refuse a position. According to the reports, only a few Washington congress members are inaugurated into the program. They are bound to strict silence. Although the US government does not issue a detailed opinion, it confirms the overall monitoring and justifies it with the requirements of the war on terror. However, it would only monitor foreigners and keep access to private data from US citizens as low as possible. The court decisions are based on the so-called "Patriot Act" adopted after the attacks of 11 September 2001.


In addition to the monitoring of the IT corporations, the telephone monitoring of the US telephone company Verizon is now confirmed. This must provide detailed information about all the inter-American and international talks to NSA. The snooping action is judicially arranged. Civil rights activists of the "Electronic Frontier Foundation" are certain that such arrangements will exist for any major US telecoms group, giving NSAs access to the data of any conversation in the US over the past seven years.