NSA Surveillance News: Everything You Need to Know

Confused about this week's deluge of news about the NSA's 
secret surveillance programs? Start here.

It began on Wednesday, with the revelation that Verizon had received a secret court orderrequesting it to give the National Security Agency access to the metadata of all Americans' phone calls. In a few hours, reports confirmed it was a standard, routine, ongoing, and recurring practice, one which is reauthorized every three months.

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On Thursday, another secret NSA program called PRISM was revealed. The program involves some of the larger Internet companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, which have all apparently collaborated with the government to wiretap their foreign users communications.

Shortly after, another report confirmed it wasn't just Verizon — AT&T and Sprint have been receiving the same orders too.

Here's our FAQ on the two separate programs.

What is the phone call metadata collection program?

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