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===PRISM===

===PRISM===

While corporations are collecting massive amounts of information for marketing, U.S. and British intelligence services are also reportedly benefiting.  Through a program called "Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management" (better known by its acronym, PRISM)<ref>http://uspolitics.about.com/od/antiterrorism/a/What-Is-Prism-In-The-National-Security-Agency.htm</ref> the National Security Administration is believed to have direct access to the data collected by a number of the largest Internet companies in the United states, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.  All companies asked about such a program have disavowed any knowledge or participation in such a program, but the evidence speaks to the contrary.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data</ref>  Additionally, it is now believed that British intelligence agencies have access to the same information.<ref>https://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.html</ref>  However, since the NSA is now coping all Internet traffic as it travels through the Internet backbone, it is unclear how useful PRISM is anymore.<ref>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-bigger-data-seizure</ref>

While corporations are collecting massive amounts of information for marketing, U.S. and British intelligence services are also reportedly benefiting.  Through a program called "Planning Tool for Resource Integration, Synchronization, and Management" (better known by its acronym, PRISM)<ref>http://uspolitics.about.com/od/antiterrorism/a/What-Is-Prism-In-The-National-Security-Agency.htm</ref> the National Security Administration is believed to have direct access to the data collected by a number of the largest Internet companies in the United States, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.  All companies asked about such a program have disavowed any knowledge or participation in such a program, but the evidence speaks to the contrary.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data</ref>  Additionally, it is now believed that British intelligence agencies have access to the same information.<ref>https://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.html</ref>  However, since the NSA is now coping all Internet traffic as it travels through the Internet backbone, it is unclear how useful PRISM is anymore.<ref>http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-bigger-data-seizure</ref>

==Specific threats==

==Specific threats==