Justin Pritchard
National Investigative Reporter, Associated Press
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tweets US intel “quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type." Wash Post on govt data mining: wapo.st/14jRXAz
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washingtonpost.com — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before.The Guardian has similar story to Wash Post: NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data bit.ly/1bab4gK
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
guardian.co.uk — The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows them to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says.U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program, Wash Post reports: wapo.st/14jRXAz
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washingtonpost.com — The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. The highly classified program, code-named PRISM, has not been disclosed publicly before.US govt collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily, the Guardian reports: bit.ly/16L89yo
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
guardian.co.uk — The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.Wired Mag offers some advice: "Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press" bit.ly/ZZ7AIX
Hear Ye, Future Deep Throats: This Is How to Leak to the Press
wired.com — We now live in a world where public servants informing the public about government behavior or wrongdoing must practice the tradecraft of drug dealers and spies. Otherwise, these informants could get caught in the web of administrations that view George Orwell's 1984 as an operations manual.AG #Holder is on Capitol Hill. @AP sty: Dems, GOP raise concerns over phone record subpoenas to AP yhoo.it/13lNTvG
Dems, GOP raise concerns over subpoenas to AP
news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON (AP) - The leaders of a House panel told Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday that they had serious concerns about the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at The Associated Press. Rep.@AP NewsAlert ¶ WASHINGTON (AP) _ Congressional Budget Office: 2013 deficit to shrink to $642B, much less than prior estimates.
#Boehner spokesman on Justice Department taking AP reporters' phone records: “The First Amendment is first for a reason."
MT @AP: CEO: "There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection" of phone records: apne.ws/10upLoS
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
bigstory.ap.org — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering.Prosecutors took records showing incoming and outgoing calls for work and personal numbers for individual reporters, plus for general AP offices in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn.MT @AP: DOJ secretly obtains AP journalists' phone records in what AP top exec calls unprecedented intrusion: apne.ws/15GBzx9
Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe
bigstory.ap.org — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists for The Associated Press in what AP's top executive says is an unprecedented intrusion into newsgathering.Prosecutors took records showing incoming and outgoing calls for work and personal numbers for individual reporters, plus for general AP offices in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn.Sign up to discover more journalists who cover Metro Los Angeles and more.
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