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PRISM and XKEYSCORE, as presented in Permanent Record, are two surveillance programs run by the NSA. PRISM collects all email, audio, video, and chat data from major tech companies, while XKEYSCORE is a search engine that allows the NSA to read a person's emails, search history, social media, and even live video. The broader implications of these programs are significant. They represent a total surveillance state where privacy is virtually non-existent. This has serious implications for personal freedom, democracy, and the balance of power between citizens and the state.
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Snowden discovered PRISM, an NSA program to collect all email, audio, video, and chat data from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Skype, among others. Over 90% of Internet traffic flows through infrastructure owned by the US government or US companies. Upstream collection was a mechanism by which the NSA collected this internet traffic by directly Internet Service Providers across the world. Between these two programs, the entire Internet was under total surveillance. XKEYSCORE was a Google-like search engine that allowed you to search for a person and read all of their emails, search history, social media, and even live video.
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