Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. [ 1][ 2][ 3] The program is also known by the SIGAD US-984XN. [ 4][ 5] PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC ...
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program ( signals intelligence /SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement: [1] Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.
China. Golden Shield Project: Also known as the "Great Firewall of China", it is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of the People's Republic of China. The project was initiated in 1998 and began operations in November 2003. [4]
The Australian Federal Government knew about the PRISM surveillance program months before Edward Snowden made details public. [206] [207] The NSA gathered hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world. The agency did not target individuals.
In late April 2021, the Global Times reported that China's Ministry of State Security will monitor employees of companies and organisations considered to be at risk of foreign infiltration while they travel to the Five Eyes countries. These employees will be required to report their travel destinations, agendas, and meetings with foreign ...
Edward Joseph Snowden ( Russian: Эдвард Джозеф Сноуден, born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower [ 4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022. In 2013, while working as a government ...
Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens. [ 1] The surveillance is often carried out by local and federal governments or governmental organizations, but it may also be carried out by corporations (either on behalf of governments or at their ...
Reception for Prism TV has been generally positive, with many observers feeling that giving consumers the option in areas where they might have been stuck with the local cable company if they weren't able to receive satellite television (due to either technical reasons or not being allowed through their landlords if they rent their homes) combined with cord-cutting would ultimately help push ...