ABC News Abi Phillips, Steven Portnoy and Joanna Stern:
U.S. National Security Agency and the FBI has to enter the major Internet company's servers collect audio, video, photos, emails and other documents, according to the program code called PRISM, Washington Post "report.
However, Obama administration officials said, the data acquisition only for non-Americans outside the United States, reportedly tied PRISM company told ABC News that they do not regularly access the private data directly to the Government.
"We have never heard of PRISM" read an e-mail from Apple's statement. "We do not provide any government agency, direct access to our server, any government agency requirements of the customer data must be a court order."
According to the "Washington Post", intelligence analysts use to gather information on the movement of the prism and contacts they have at least 51% confidence that foreign "goal", but "accidentally" collecting content.
"Internal briefing Silicon Valley operations for NSA's Signals Intelligence Agency senior analyst, described the new tool as president of the daily reference, which lists 1,477 articles PRISM data, last year's richest sources," according to the report. "According to Washington Post" was briefing slides, NSA reports increasingly rely on Prism "as the main source of its raw materials, accounting for nearly 17 intelligence reports."
"Washington Post" reports came out, in the "Guardian", a British newspaper, detailing the court order, to the National Security Agency's ability to collect phone records, Verizon customers, a program that lawmakers suggested since 2006 Another report continued.
According to the "Washington Post" story, a career intelligence officer with newspapers and PowerPoint slides PRISM program, expose "what he considered a serious invasion of privacy."
However, a senior government official defended Washington Post and The Guardian "reported that the reference to" a collection of communication. "
"" The Guardian, "Washington Post," the article refers to the collection of communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act "Section 702. Located in United States law does not allow for any U.S. citizen or anyone else," the official said. "The program is monitored by the foreign intelligence court, the administration and congressional oversight, it involves a wide range of procedures, specifically approved by the court, outside the United States to ensure that only non-United States person targeted, and, incidentally, to minimize who obtained information about the collection, preservation and dissemination. "
The official added that "the threat of various information is used to protect the country," and said that according to data collected by the program "is one of the most important and valuable intelligence information.
"The government may only use the first 702 to obtain foreign intelligence information, which is specialized and narrow definition of the" Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, "the official said." This applies across the board, regardless of the nationality of the target. "
In addition to Apple, according to the "Washington Post", PRISM also swept companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PalTalk, Skype, YouTube, and AOL's data.
In addition to these through any Internet service provider for any data, Mail "reported that the government can monitor the" target activities, "such as log plug-in, file transfer and storage of data.
Google spokesman said the company does not have "a 'back door'" for the government to access user data.
"Google is deeply concerned about the safety of our users data, we disclose user data to government law, we carefully review all such requests," a spokesman said in a statement. "From time to time, people say that we have created a government 'back door' into our system, but Google does not provide access to the user's private data the government has a 'back door'."
Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo also denied taking part in an extensive program to collect data.
"Only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis, we provide customer data," Microsoft said. "Also, we only ever meet specific account or identifier requested order, if the government has a wider range of voluntary national security plan to gather customer data, we do not participate."
"Protecting our users' privacy and their data is a top priority on Facebook," The Social Network, said in a statement. "We do not provide direct access to any government organization Facebook's servers, when data or specific personal information, Facebook is asking us carefully examine any relevant requirements to comply with all applicable laws, limited by law to provide information."
Yahoo said: "Yahoo will be the user's privacy very seriously." "We do not provide the government directly into our server, system or network."
 
 



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