The word "prism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can refer to a transparent, solid object with flat, polished surfaces that refract light, but it can also be used metaphorically for something that splits light into its constituent colors, or divides something into its component parts. Example sentence: The recent political scandal is a prism through which one can view the country's current state of affairs.
Hollywood also found it easier to tackle these issues through the prism of the musical, as in 1957's The Pajama Game, where Doris Day and her factory superintendent resolve their industrial dispute by falling in love.
All the companies are fighting hard to regain any trust lost with their users since the Guardian broke the news of the NSA's Prism programme.
To the extent policy contests have leaked out from back rooms, they are inevitably reported through the prism of division.
As Tsipras departed Athens, officials said the Kremlin talks should be seen through the prism of Athens' leftist-led government doing "what is best for Greece".
Neither bill, nor any other introduced in Congress thus far, would restrict the collection of foreigners' online communications under the NSA's Prism program.
Some, like Apple, said they had "never heard" the term Prism.
It is unclear what sort of legal process the government serves on a company to compel communications content and metadata access under Prism or through upstream collection.
The disclosure of Prism resulted in a cataclysm in technology circles, with tech giants launching extensive PR campaigns to reassure their customers of data security and successfully pressing the Obama administration to allow them greater leeway to disclose the volume and type of data requests served to them by the government.
And like most readers who approach Algeria through the prism of Camus, I was puzzled by this place, which, as he described it, was so French that it might have been in France but was also so foreign and out of reach.
The subject matter is history and psychology, through the prism of Germany's habit of beating England in international football matches and Arsenal's big, friendly centre-half from Hannover is on a roll.
When the Guardian and the Washington Post broke the Prism story in June, thanks to documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, nearly all the companies listed as participating in the program – Yahoo, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and AOL – claimed they did not know about a surveillance practice described as giving NSA vast access to their customers' data.
