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		eli on June 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure Are you sure the NSA indeed had unfiltered access to data? Several tech companies very specifically and loudly refuted that claim and the Washington Post backed away from some of the initial claims about the level of access and complicity the NSA had.

ryanmerket on June 15, 2013 [–]

It's well known that they do on the transport layer (Verizon, AT&T, etc). Not so much on the application layer (Google, Facebook, AOL, etc).

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