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Re:Help make mass surveillance of entire populations unecono... by snowwrestler on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:32AM (#35774265)
It has been clearly reported, but in case folks are not aware: PRISM is not a system for deep persistent access into tech platforms, it is the internal NSA designation (code name) for data sourced via FISA court orders. The FBI actually secures the court order and then requests the data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

If a company stores data about you, it is possible it could be subject to a FISA request. Data which is end-to-end encrypted would still be provided if it satisfies the criteria in the FISA court order. But it would be up to the NSA to try to break the encryption. Metadata might or might not be encrypted.

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Re:Help make mass surveillance of entire populations unecono... by sdfghswe on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:46AM (#35774504)
That's.... not as bad as originally advertised, is it?
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Re:Help make mass surveillance of entire populations unecono... by bdav2418 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @08:23AM (#35786344)
It is important to mention that FISA requests have something like a 98% approval rate and have a history of being overly broad allowing for dragnet data collection. So PRISM does still allow for very wide sweeping data access from tech companies. But yes, end-to-end encryption is one of the few things that can help with this.
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