I suspect Americans are probably over-represented on American databases, but OTOH, there’s 5.7 billion non-americans in total vs. The negative does not equal the positive, (That is, the number of people under survey are not equally split between ‘american’ and ‘not american’), so a coin flip would perform either much worse or much better. If I was flipping a coin, I would get 50% of positives would test false and vice versa. Learning ? We will acquire and transfer knowledge, provide the resources and training necessary for our people to remain at the forefront of technology, and individually pursue continuous learning. Innovation ? We will seek new ways to accomplish our mission, planning for the future based on what we’ve learned from the past, and thinking ahead to the best of our ability to avoid unintended consequences. Loyalty ? We will be loyal to the nation, the mission, and each other, weighing ideas solely on the merits and ensuring that decisions enjoy vigorous debate while being made, followed by unified implementation.Ĭollaboration ? We will cooperate with others in a respectful and open-minded manner, to our mutual success. Integrity ? We will behave honorably and apply good judgment as we would if our activities were under intense public scrutiny.įairness ? We will ensure equal opportunity and fairness in Agency policies, programs, and practices.Īccountability ? We will be accountable for our actions and take responsibility for our decisions, practicing wise stewardship of public resources and placing prudent judgment over expediency. Honesty ? We will be truthful with each other, and honor the public’s need for openness, balanced against national security interests. Lawfulness ? We will adhere to the spirit and the letter of the Constitution and the laws and regulations of the United States. We will protect national security interests by adhering to the highest standards of behavior: I expect we’ll be seeing more such revelations before long.įiled Under: data, data mining, nsa, privacy, spyingĬompanies: aol, apple, dropbox, facebook, google, microsoft, paltalk, skype, yahoo content for a quarterly report, “but it’s nothing to worry about.”Įven when the system works just as advertised, with no American singled out for targeting, the NSA routinely collects a great deal of American content. Training materials obtained by the Post instruct new analysts to submit accidentally collected U.S. From inside a company’s data stream the NSA is capable of pulling out anything it likes, but under current rules the agency does not try to collect it all.Īnalysts who use the system from a Web portal at Fort Meade key in “selectors,” or search terms, that are designed to produce at least 51 percent confidence in a target’s “foreignness.” That is not a very stringent test. The PRISM program is not a dragnet, exactly. They claim that they’re not collecting all data, but it’s not clear that makes a real difference: This program, like the constant surveillance of phone records, began in 2007, though other programs predated it. They are listed on a roster that bears their logos in order of entry into the program: “Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” PalTalk, although much smaller, has hosted significant traffic during the Arab Spring and in the ongoing Syrian civil war.ĭropbox, the cloud storage and synchronization service, is described as “coming soon.” The technology companies, which participate knowingly in PRISM operations, include most of the dominant global players of Silicon Valley. The latest, from the Washington Post, is that the NSA has direct data mining capabilities into the data held by nine of the biggest internet/tech companies: And it seems to be spurring further leaks and disclosures. Obviously, the Verizon/NSA situation was merely a small view into just how much spying the NSA is doing on everyone.
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