Well what's a PRISM actually? It's a covert cyber security program started in 2007 by the NSA and the FBI to monitor the Internet data of "foreigners" using major U.S. Web sites. The secret program was first reported by The Washington Post, which received a leaked top-secret document detailing PRISM. It has now been acknowledged by the Obama administration.
The best part of this program is that it not only monitor the US citizens but it also monitors the whole cyber communications.
According to "slides and other supporting materials" obtained by The Washington Post: "e-mail, chat, videos, photos, stored data, VoIP, file transfers, video conferencing, notifications of target activity...log-ins, etc., online social networking details" -- so, everything.
For instance, Google data includes " Gmail , voice and video chat, Google Drive files, photo libraries, and live surveillance of search terms."
The original report suggests that "NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM" as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports.
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