Spy Program "PRISM" Revelations -- The Beginning of the End of Privacy

Read Secret FISC Court Demand Letter That Forced Verizon to Continually Turn Over All US Customers' Communication Records for Permanent Archiving
A 3-page secret court order made Verizon hand over all call detail records of its US customers. These are technically termed "telephony metadata"....

Graph of Secret Court's "rubber stamping" of Spying Requests

Green line represents 11 requests that were not rubber stamped

"Of the tens of thousands of warrant requests to the FISC, 29,750 were granted and only 11 rejected in the years between 1978 and 2011. The first time FISC said “no” was 2003. Not a single application was rejected in 2011."

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Photo copies of the FISA Court Order leaked by Edward Snowden below.

Note that the secret order will remain classified for 25 years until 2013.

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