Now Snowden, as the technical director of this project, has actively exposed this top secret plan to the media, that is, exposed all the most confidential things of the US government, and then Snowden now runs to Hong Kong for temporary asylum. After arriving in Hongkong, Snowden revealed many secrets to the media, saying that the US government has been attacking other countries' networks for several years, and also invaded China's networks to steal all kinds of information.
Event background
Prism is a top secret electronic monitoring project implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2007. The official name of the project is "US-984XN".
According to reports, leaked documents describe that Project Prism can deeply monitor instant messages and existing materials. The allowed monitoring targets include any customer who uses the services of participating companies outside the United States, or any American citizen who communicates with foreigners. Data e-mail, video and voice conversations, movies, photos, VoIP conversations, file transfers, login notifications and social network details that can be obtained by the National Security Agency in the Prism Project. In the comprehensive intelligence document "President's Daily Briefing", 20 12 years and 1477 projects used information from the prism.
According to the documents disclosed by Snowden, the National Security Agency has access to a large number of personal chat records, stored data, voice communication, file transfer and personal social network data. The U.S. government confirmed that Verizon, an American company, was indeed asked to provide millions of private phone records, including the duration of private phone calls, the place of calls and the phone numbers of both parties.
The report on Prism appeared shortly after the US government kept secretly asking Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with the daily telephone records of all its customers. The top secret documents were leaked by edward snowden, a contractor employee of the National Security Agency. He used to work in the office of the National Security Agency in Hawaii. 20 13 After copying the documents in May, go to Hong Kong for publicity.
Washington post reported that the "Prism" project began in 2007. Senator Fan confirmed that the National Security Bureau's telephone record database has existed for at least seven years. The project costs $20 million a year, and it has been paid more and more attention since Obama took office. In 20 12, as a part of the president's daily briefing, the project data was cited 1477 times, and at least17 reports of the National Security Bureau used the project data.