Specific Surveillance, General Privacy Reform Should Come Out of Reports on Prism, Advocates Say

摘要

Privacy advocates are calling for policy changes on surveillance and privacy after news reports lastnweek that the National Security Agency (NSA) has operated a program since 2007, named Prism, that allowsnthe agency access to user data controlled by major online service providers, including Google, Facebook,nMicrosoft, Yahoo and Apple. The program is operated under the FISA Amendment Act (FAA),nwhich passed last year and updated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, according to April documentsncited in the news reports. Thursday’s reports on the program from The Washington Post (http:/wapo.st/14ClB0z) and The Guardian (http://bit.ly/1baaUGj) came after Wednesday’s reports that the NSAncompels Verizon to release to the agency data on customers' call logs (CD June 7 p1).