"By itself, Tor does not protect the actual communications content once it leaves the Tor network," the Tor Project said in a blog post last month.
Yahoo disclosed that it gave the government communications content from between 30,000 and 30,999 accounts over the first six months of 2013, and fewer than 1,000 customer accounts that were subject to Fisa court orders for metadata.
"In fact, DRIP attempts to extend the territorial reach of the British interception powers, expanding the UK's ability to mandate the interception of communications content across the globe.
The first type of collected data, the contents of communications (content data), is regulated by the EU Directive on privacy and electronic communications.
More to the point, the deal suggests that the industry is moving closer to providing data access, whether in the form of communications, content, home networking and digital commerce, through one pipe and one box the television.
Microsoft received fewer than 1,000 orders from the Fisa court for communications content during the same period, related to between 15,000 and 15,999 "accounts or individual identifiers".
Sally Ingram works for ConSol Partners, which provides global staffing solutions in the technology domains of communications, content and development and leads the mobile communications division.
I want us to be the best communications company in the world, and that definition includes the applications associated with communications, content associated with communications, like e-mail.
The report concluded that allegations that the agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, "acted illegally by accessing communications content" from the enormous American surveillance program known as Prism were "unfounded".
There were also calls for Congress and the Administration to bring greater transparency and more rigorous safeguards to restrict the warrantless collection of communications content and to put an end to any prospective surveillance under the so-called business records law.
