FISA 101: 10 key dates in the evolution of NSA surveillance

6. PRISM program launched, 2007

The PRISM program was launched in 2007, according to an NSA PowerPoint presentation released by the Washington Post and the Guardian in June 2013. The government denied that this surveillance and data collection program uses data mining, which would collect vast amounts of information, and responded saying that it targeted individual threats, gathering data using warrants authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

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