Program name: PRISM
Start time: 2007 (under President George W. Bush)
Prior program: Terrorist Surveillance Program
Managing department: National Security Agency (NSA)
Involving companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple
PRISM cost: $20m per year
Collection details: E-mail, Chat -video, voice, Videos, Photos, Stored data, VoIP, File transfers, Video Conferencing, Notifications of target activity -logins,etc., Online Social Networking details, Special Requests
Targeted objects: Potentially valuable foreign communications that might pass through US servers
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