According to a declassified order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as of 2011, the US National Security Agency was "acquiring" more than 250 million "internet communications" each year under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) — the statute that allows the NSA to collect the content of internet communications. The order states that the "vast majority" of these communications were obtained from internet service providers under PRISM, and that only nine percent of of the total internet communications acquired by the NSA were part of its "upstream" collection practices, which pull data directly from telecommunications cables.
PRISM, a tool used by the NSA to collect private electronic data of users from services...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4645042/nsa-prism-internet-communication-collection-200-million-fisc-order
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