Told You So: If You Have Been Using A Centralized Comms Service, You Were Wiretapped
Privacy: This night, news broke that the USA’s security agencies have been wiretapping essentially every major centralized social service for private data. Photos, video conferences, text chats, and voice calls – everything. We have been saying this for years and been declared tinfoil hat and conspiracy nuts; it’s good to finally see the documents in black on white.
This night, European time, the news broke that the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA) has had direct access to pretty much every social network for the past several years, dating back to 2007, under a program named PRISM. Under the program, a number of social services voluntarily feed people’s private data to the NSA. In short, if you have been using/uploading
- video or voice chat
- videos
- photos
- stored data
- VoIP calls
- file transfers
- video conferencing
- (and more)
…from any of…
- Microsoft (incl. Hotmail et al), since Sep 11, 2007
- Google, since Jan 14, 2009
- Yahoo, since Mar 12, 2008
- Facebook, since June 3, 2009
- PalTalk, since Dec 7, 2009
- YouTube, since Sep 24, 2010
- Skype, since Feb 6, 2011
- AOL, since Mar 31, 2011
- Apple, since Oct 2012
…then you have been wiretapped, and still are.