NSA says technology companies know all about collecting user information

Summary] The NSA legal counsel has revealed that 702 of data collection is conducted through court orders, and technology companies are sure to know. March 20, the BI Chinese language station reported that the National Security Agency (NSA) legal adviser Rajesh De Rajesh De criticized the NSA for the High-tech industry, pointing out that the tech companies were fully aware of the spy agencies ' collection of their user data. At a hearing on the "Prism (Board)" program at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Committee (Privacy and Libertarians liberties oversight PRISM), Rajesh De said technology companies were "fully aware" of the monitoring plan, It's just impossible to know the name of the plan. "Prism" is a term within the government, "says De. Under this scheme, data collection is a mandatory legal process which any company will accept. The PRISM program allows the NSA to collect user data from technology giants such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. When the PRISM project was first leaked, The Washington Post reported that the 702 orders that the NSA gave to High-tech companies were "one-time approvals for data collection and monitoring of specific foreign targets, which lasted a year." "All the big tech companies are vehemently denying this, and many are sharply criticizing the NSA," he said. Mark Zuckerberg recently spoke to President Obama about the issue, saying the U.S. government is more of a "threat" to the Internet than a supporter. But Rajesh De insists: "All 702 data collections are based on court orders, so they must know." "(Tan S compiled)