New slides PRISM published June 29
Acquiring data from a new target
This slide describes what happens when an NSA analyst “tasks” the
PRISM system for information about a new surveillance target. The
request to add a new target is passed automatically to a supervisor
who reviews the “selectors,” or search terms. The supervisor must
endorse the analyst’s “reasonable belief,” defined as 51 percent
confidence, that the specified target is a foreign national who is
overseas at the time of collection.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/
India’s surveillance project may be as lethal as PRISM
Project documents relating to the new Centralized Monitoring System
(CMS) reveal the government’s lethal and all-encompassing surveillance
capabilities, which, without the assurance of a matching legal and
procedural framework to protect privacy, threaten to be as intrusive
as the U.S. government’s controversial PRISM project.
These capabilities are being built even as a debate rages on the
extent to which the privacy of Indian Internet and social media users
was compromised by the PRISM project. A PIL petition on the subject
has already been admitted by the Supreme Court.
The documents in the possession of The Hindu indicate that the CMS
project now has a budgeted commitment nearly double that of the Rs.
400-crore estimate that senior officials mentioned in a recent
briefing to the media. Once implemented, the CMS will enhance the
government’s surveillance and interception capabilities far beyond
‘meta-data,’ data mining, and the original expectation of “instant”
and secure interception of phone conversations.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-surveillance-project-may-be-as-lethal-as-prism/article4834619.ece
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