PRISM Leak: Understanding How Surveillance Works

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Channel: NewsClickin · 2013 · Music

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In the backdrop of the recent National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program leaks, Newsclick discusses with Prabir Purkayastha from the Society for Knowledge Commons, how governments use telephone records and internet traffic as methods of surveillance, and how that information contributes to intelligence briefing. Questions on breach of privacy have become more or less insignificant. The most important question now is how to prevent misuse of the data that has already been collected.

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