SUPER SNOOPS: Attendees surf the internet at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California May 1, 2013. According to The Washington Post, US government investigators are examining e-mail messages, photos and other documents that can be used to track people and their contacts over time. - Reuters
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, allowing investigators to examine e-mail messages, photos and other documents that can be used to track people and their contacts over time, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The highly classified anti-terrorism program, code-named PRISM, had not been disclosed publicly before. A US government source who was not authorized to comment publicly on the program confirmed its existence to Reuters late on Thursday.
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