[liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

[Peter Eckersley]

Of course, I was reading to fast and leaning to heavily on control+f.

Anyway, 20 million annually seems like a very low number by the usual
standards of efficiency in Department of Defense programs.  But the NSA
might already have a data storage, processing and query architecture in
place that is either not included in this budget or only included on a
marginal cost basis.

On 6 June 2013 16:45, Peter Eckersley <peter.eckersley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where did you get the $20m budget number from?  I can't find it in any of
> the stories or attached materials.  But I could be missing something.
>
>
> On 6 June 2013 16:14, x z <xhzhang at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> doesn't seem real to me.  especially the part "*direct access to servers*of firms ...", and with an annual budget of measly $20m.
>>
>>
>> 2013/6/6 Michael Carbone <michael at accessnow.org>
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>>> Guardian:
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
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>>> WaPo:
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story_1.html
>>>
>>> some of the slides (haven't seen the full ppt drop):
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/
>>>
>>> Participating companies in chronological order: Microsoft, Yahoo,
>>> Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, Apple. Dropbox
>>> apparently next up.
>>>
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>>> Manager of Tech Policy & Programs
>>> Access | https://www.accessnow.org
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