Sentence examples for prism slides from inspiring English sources

Why has the Guardian suppressed so many of the PRISM slides when questions persist on the question of direct access?

They hope to combat the perception that the N.S.A. has "direct access" to their servers, language used in one of the Prism slides leaked by Edward Snowden.

Much of the focus of the Snowden revelations has been on the internet giants because Google, Facebook, Apple and others were named in the Prism slides, published by the Guardian on 6 June last year.

The horrific tensions so ably portrayed by Gene Hackman in this movie come to mind in considering the condition of the mysterious "career intelligence officer" who somehow made the Prism slides available to the press.

Dropbox, a company that was listed as "coming soon" on the first PRISM slides, has joined with other technology companies in calling for reformation of surveillance.

It is possible that the conflict between the PRISM slides and the company spokesmen is the result of imprecision on the part of the NSA author.

"We have also learned of the large-scale collaboration with telecom giants, Internet companies and service providers," the actor Wil Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and is a popular figure in tech circles) tells viewers as a shot of the now infamous Prism PowerPoint slide, listing Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other companies, comes into focus.

On June 12th the head of the NSA, Keith Alexander, said the surveillance programmes had helped prevent "dozens of terrorist events"—though they did not avert the Boston bombings.Whatever the truth, the leaks are damaging America's telecoms and internet firms, especially the companies whose cheerful logos appear at the top of the leaked slides describing PRISM.

But roughly 20 minutes after the Post story appeared online Thursday, The Guardian –- which had already broken a major story the previous night on the NSA's seizure of millions of Verizon customers' phone records –- published its own story on PRISM, complete with PowerPoint slides.

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy.

An NSA slide describes Prism activity as "collection directly from the servers of these US service providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple".