electronic communication service providers." At least some of the companies did have a working relationship with intelligence officials that reportedly extended to security clearance for some company employees and possible transfers of data through a safe box. The government says it did not unilaterally obtain information from the servers of U.S. The companies vehemently deny joining any program but acknowledge receiving requests, albeit not "bulk" requests. The participation or not, under legal compunction or not, of Internet companies in the NSA's surveillance activities remains a matter of competing denials.The slide distinguishes Prism, which involves data collection from servers, from four different programs involving data collection from "fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past." The Guardian published a slide from the NSA's Prism program showing different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act. Its existence seems to contradict agency statements to congress that it is unable to quantify its surveillance work in the US. The tool shows the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013. The Guardian published a story describing an NSA tool called Boundless Informant that tracks, quantifies and even maps where the agency collects intelligence data.We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day.
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