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US intelligence agencies are accessing the servers of 9 Internet giants as part of a secret data mining program likely to fuel fresh debate about government surveillance, it was reported Thursday, June 6. The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI had direct access to servers which allowed them to track an individual’s web presence via audio, video, photographs, emails and connection logs. The newspaper cited details of a briefing on the top secret program called PRISM, intended for analysts at the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate in April. While a number of web companies were reportedly involved in the program, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Apple, PalTalk, AOL, Skype and YouTube, some of the companies have countered the report, denying opening doors for US intelligence agencies to mine data from their servers.
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