Friday, August 23, 2013

PRISM cost tech companies and taxpayers millions of dollars


A report from The Guardian reveals for the first time some of the secret costs associated with the National Security Agency's PRISM data collection program, and the statutory financial relationship between the government and tech companies like Yahoo, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. A top secret NSA newsletter from December, 2012 indicates that PRISM certification costs — costs associated with compliance with the government's procedures and limitations for data collection — amounted to "millions of dollars for PRISM providers to implement."


While the leaked newsletter suggests the government acknowledges responsibility for paying for compliance costs, it's unclear if any of the companies participating in PRISM have actually been...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/23/4651010/prism-data-cost-yahoo-facebook-google-microsoft-nsa

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