- Investigative journalists delivered important reports on the extent of the National Security Agency's surveillance operations within the United States.
First, The Guardian revealed on June 5 how the National Security Agency has routinely collected data on millions of Americans' phone calls. 
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers dailyThe National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's large...- The Washington Post followed the story the next day with a story on PRISM, a program of the NSA and FBI to monitor nine Internet companies' servers. Those companies include Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret programThe National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extractin...- Tech firms denied the Washington Post story shortly after its publication.
Apple denies giving government direct access to servers
Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson A man talks on his telephone as customers walk through an Apple store in Grand Central Terminal in New York...- The articles quickly called new attention to the growth of the U.S. government's surveillance policies. Although it has been common knowledge that the government has expanded its authority to obtain communications data through legislation like the Patriot Act and 2008 expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the fact that the NSA has obtained data on millions of people through a wide-ranging court order caught many by surprise, including members of Congress.
The NSA’s seizure & surveillance of virtually all of Verizon’s customers is an astounding assault on the Constitution http://1.usa.gov/10T2p16
NSA has no business snooping into EVERYONE’S phone records. Obama admin is playing fast and loose with privacy rights http://bit.ly/123bp5o
Corker on #NSA phone record collection: “I don’t think most of us had any idea how broad this data gathering was…” http://bit.ly/11vbQU3- Others outside of government expressed their own concerns, sometimes with a sense of humor:
"Reasonable suspicion" is the new "natural". #nsa #marketingterminology
the NSA now knows my bank pin number i guess..i mean its not like i have rights or anything..thats ok, its not private #sureyournotspying- A New York Times editorial declared the NSA's sweeping collection of phone records signifies "the Obama Administration has lost all credibility on this issue," referring to President Barack Obama's past promises of transparency.
President Obama's DragnetWithin hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether t...
"The clocks were striking thirteen." New revelations show extent of U.S. surveillance
News reports have provided new information on the breadth of surveillance policies within the United States.
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