NSA Paid Millions To Tech Companies To Spy On Americans

A government slide shows the internet companies who have been providing data under the government’s PRISM program. Image: Courtesy of The Washington Post

NSA Paid Millions To Cover Prism Compliance Costs For Tech Companies -- The Guardian

• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship
• Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA
• Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling

The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the costs of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance program after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were unconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian.

The technology companies, which the NSA says includes Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook, incurred the costs to meet new certification demands in the wake of the ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (Fisa) court.

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