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A comment on Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (2012).

Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by conroy on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:24AM (#6074494)
Other companies with projects named PRISM:

Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html

Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/

CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html

Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx

Universities with projects named PRISM:

Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx

Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism

Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate...

While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.

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Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by dualogy on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:26AM (#6074496)
> PRISM is a great name for a project

---or was.

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Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by conroy on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:29AM (#6074501)
Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
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Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by kristopolous on Saturday July 20, 2013 @06:56AM (#6074877)
Oh I totally will. Back in the PPro days I called the project to get the workstations cointelpro - and I was just a snippy highschool kid then.

I'm totally going to do this.

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Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by wavesounds on Saturday July 20, 2013 @04:23AM (#6074657)
Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
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Re:Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’ (... by Brock_Lee on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:49AM (#6074519)
Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.
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