Spy state shock: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple all secretly sharing private user communications with NSA

Spy state shock: Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple all secretly sharing private user communications with NSA


(NaturalNews) In a week that has already been rocked by one explosive
government spy scandal involving the NSA scooping up phone call data and
geographic locations of Verizon customers, another scandalous discovery
has just erupted that's sure to "wake up" millions of Americans who
have been living in denial.

"The National Security Agency and the
FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S.
Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails,
documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s
movements and contacts over time," reports the Washington Post in an explosive investigative article.

Top
secret documents obtained by the Washington Post show that nearly all
the top internet services -- Microsoft Hotmail, Google Gmail, Yahoo
Mail, Facebook, Skype, AOL, Apple, Youtube and PalTalk -- are all sharing ALL your user communications with the federal government. Dropbox is reportedly "coming soon."

As the Washington Post explains:

Through
a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence
community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a
wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously
undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth
of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely
publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic
telephone communications in 2005.

The types of data these
services allow the government to surveil include emails, audio chats,
video chats, text chats, photos, usernames, passwords, file transfers,
VoIP sessions and much more. Users of Google Drive will be shocked to
learn that the NSA has full access to all their private files stored on
Google Drive. In effect, these services take every communication
initiated by their users and turn it over to the NSA. All these internet services are operating in conspiracy with a criminal government that believes there are absolutely no limits to its power and that it can spy and snoop on all Americans.

When
you are calling friends on your iPhone, or chatting over Skype, or
emailing someone on Gmail or Yahoo Mail, everything you type, speak,
attach or send is being systematically siphoned up, databased and
tracked by the U.S. government.

This is all revealed in "PRISM slide #4," which was leaked to the Washington Post. Here's the slide image, just in case it gets yanked from WashPo:



Timeline of betrayal

The
collection of private user data under the PRISM program began on
September 11, 2007, with Microsoft (Hotmail) turning over private
emails. Every Hotmail email sent since 2007 has been surveiled and
tracked by the NSA.

Here are the dates of "activation" when the NSA began collecting private user data from internet service providers:

• September, 2007 - Microsoft / Hotmail
• March, 2008 - Yahoo Mail
• January, 2009 - Google Gmail
• June, 2009 - Facebook
• December, 2009 - Paltalk
• September, 2010 - YouTube
• February, 2011 - Skype
• March, 2011 - AOL
• October, 2012 - Apple

This is detailed in "PRISM slide #5" shown below:



Total bust for any remaining trust in cloud computing

Beyond
all the astonishing implications of this discovery which merit a full
discussion separate from this article, this revelation is bound to
shatter any remaining trust in so-called "cloud computing."

Anyone
and everyone using Google applications that store files online -- or
using online file backup or storage services -- must now assume the NSA
is capturing and scanning all their files. The internet police state is
operating in full force, and absolutely nothing is safe from its prying
eyes... not even your photos and private files.

And while many
people were aware that services like Google and Yahoo were scanning
their emails in order to show them related advertising on other websites
they surf, virtually no one believed that Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and
AOL were systematically turning over all their private emails to the government.

That
very idea, in fact, was called a "conspiracy theory" until this very
day. Anyone who suggested this was taking place -- like Alex Jones --
was branded a loon. (Will the media now apologize to him for warning of
this exact thing? I doubt it...)

But now it's all confirmed. The
government isn't just reaching down your pants at the airport; it's
reaching into your private phone calls, emails, bank account activities,
family photos, online storage files, Skype chats, Skype calls and
everything else.

The Bush-Obama surveillance nightmare

This police state surveillance nightmare was started by Bush but continued by Obama. Ron Fournier has penned an excellent article on this very topic, entitled Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They're Spying on Us.

These revelations are so shocking that even the New York Times
is starting to awaken to the reality of the police state, saying the
Obama administration "...has now lost all credibility on this issue" and
following that up with, "Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the
executive will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it."

The NYT goes on to call the Patriot Act "reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers."

It's
right about that, of course. And it brings up an inconvenient fact that
many Republicans have forgotten: All this police state surveillance
expansion was started in the Bush era. It was all "legalized" in the
frenzied aftermath of 9/11, which now completely explains why rogue
elements working within the government plotted the 9/11 attacks and
allowed them to be carried out by standing down defense forces which
could have prevented it.

The real purpose of the Bush-era Patriot Act

The
entire purpose of 9/11 was to thrust Americans into a state of
irrational fear so that they would support even the most insane,
draconian, police state laws such as the Patriot Act. Republicans were
beating their war drums and cheering the passage of this law!

Now,
of course, they incorrectly blame Obama for the police state. But Obama
is only half to blame: he didn't start these activities but he sure
continued them. And in some ways, Obama found new opportunities to
exploit and abuse government power beyond what even Bush could have
imagined. The due of Bush + Obama is an absolute train wreck of
criminality, spookiness and the abandonment of all rights and
protections for the People.

Everybody is to blame for this. Bush
supporters let this happen and Obama supporters let it ride. All along,
neither party demanded the government limit its powers and abide by the
Constitution. Only Ron Paul and a few libertarians carried that torch
for the last 12 years, but they were shouted down by the establishment
media which pretended the police state didn't exist at all.

So don't expect any miracles to occur when talking about dismantling this police state nightmare that smacks of North Korea: both political parties are huge believers in government abuse of power
and the use of government to dominate, intimidate, censor, oppress,
track and surveil innocent Americans. In fact, their entire power base
depends on this.

Because if Americans were free to openly share
ideas without fear of intimidation, they might discuss truly
revolutionary ideas like eliminating the IRS, arresting all the war
criminals in the U.S. Senate, or even marching on the White House and
throwing the gangsters out of office.

source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/040659_internet_surveillance_police_state_Facebook.html