Ce programme classé, relevant de la National Security Agency (NSA), prévoit le ciblage de personnes vivant hors des États-Unis10.

The subheader reads "Collection only possible under FAA702 Authority". Prodhan, Georgina; Davenport, Claire (June 7, 2013). government officials have disputed criticisms of PRISM in the PRISM was publicly revealed when classified documents about the program were leaked to journalists of The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including The slide presentation stated that much of the world's electronic communications pass through the U.S., because electronic communications data tend to follow the least expensive route rather than the most physically direct route, and the bulk of the world's internet infrastructure is based in the United States.Snowden's subsequent disclosures included statements that government agencies such as the Below are a number of slides released by Edward Snowden showing the operation and processes behind the PRISM program. Beverly Gage of Besides the information collection program started in 2007, there are two other programs sharing the name PRISM:Slide showing that much of the world's communications flow through the U.S.Slide listing companies and the date that PRISM collection beganSlide showing two different sources of NSA data collection. The company further reported that the requests impacted "between 18,000 and 19,000" user accounts, a "tiny fraction of one percent" of more than 1.1 billion active user accounts.That same day, Microsoft reported that for the same period, it received "between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 consumer accounts from U.S. governmental entities (including local, state and federal)" which impacted "a tiny fraction of Microsoft's global customer base.

However, it agreed to a hear the After receiving a FISA Court order or determining that there are emergency circumstances, the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence can direct an electronic communication service provider to give them access to information or facilities to carry out the targeting and keep the targeting secret.Finally, a provider can petition the FISA Court to reject the directive.The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the FISA Courts had been put in place to oversee intelligence operations in the period after the death of J. Edgar Hoover. PRISM, également appelé US-984XN1, est un programme américain de surveillance électronique par la collecte de renseignements à partir d'Internet et d'autres fournisseurs de services électroniques2,3,4,note 1. The legislation has been under consideration for two years.
"Besides the information collection program started in 2007, there are two other programs sharing the name PRISM:Prodhan, Georgina; Davenport, Claire (June 7, 2013). According to Jenaro Villamil, a writer from At a meeting of European Union leaders held the week of 21 October 2013, Corporate executives of several companies identified in the leaked documents told In response to the technology companies' confirmation of the NSA being able to directly access the companies' servers, "If these companies received an order under the FISA amendments act, they are forbidden by law from disclosing having received the order and disclosing any information about the order at all," Mark Rumold, staff attorney at the On May 28, 2013, Google was ordered by United States District Court Judge While providing data in response to a legitimate FISA request approved by the FISA Court is a legal requirement, modifying systems to make it easier for the government to collect the data is not. FAA702 Operations, and map.


PRISM est supervisé par la United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) conformément au FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA)11. intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told various news outlets that by June 24 they were already seeing what they said was evidence that suspected terrorists had begun changing their communication practices in order to evade detection by the surveillance tools disclosed by Snowden.In contrast to their swift and forceful reactions the previous day to allegations that the government had been conducting surveillance of United States citizens' telephone records, Congressional leaders initially had little to say about the PRISM program the day after leaked information about the program was published.

The first source the fiber optic cables of the Internet handled by the Slide fragment mentioning "upstream collection", FAA702, EO 12333, and references yahoo.com explicitly in the text.FAA702 Operations, and map.