The NSA only collects the type of information found on a telephone bill: phone numbers of calls placed and received, the time of the calls and duration." Major 2014 Revelations about the Surveillance Program. Here's a look at some of the controversial aspects of the NSA's surveillance program made public by Snowden that received headlines in 2014.

Apr 24, 2019 What is the NSA's PRISM program? (FAQ) - CNET It is apparently not the name for an overarching secret surveillance program in affiliation with certain large tech companies, that's a separate NSA program. For more information on it, read this. Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. NSA, Verizon surveillance program: What you need to know Jun 06, 2013

GCHQ, which is the British counterpart to the NSA, has a similar surveillance program and shares data with the NSA. Many countries now have some sort of mass Internet surveillance now in place.

NSA's ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM. See recent MSNBC interview with Edward Snowden about this illegal surveillance going on, from Sept 17, 2019 interview, CLICK HERE-Also see the video on this link, "Surveillance Is About Power", part of an interview with Edward Snowden Jun 08, 2013 · NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data 'directly from the servers' of tech firms

By Forrest Stroud PRISM program is a massive surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The PRISM program utilizes extensive data mining efforts to collect information and analyze that data for patterns of terrorist or other potential criminal activity. PRISM: Clouded in Secrecy

This probably won't get a lot of upvotes, but WIRED did an interview with Edward Snowden last year, and his interview actually convinced me on why the surveillance program isn't acceptable as it is today, and I'll tell you why. You don't have to Review Board: NSA Surveillance Program Barely Toes Jul 02, 2014