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In the article ӀU.S. Confirms That It Gathers Online Data Overseas,Ԁ Charlie Savage, Edward Wyatt and Peter Baker write about the disclosure that the federal government appears to have been secretly obtaining data from the largest Internet companies for nearly six years.
WHO has been compiling a huge database of calling logs of AmericansҀ domestic communications, as well as information on foreigners overseas from the nationҀs largest Internet companies, for at least six years?
WHY has this agency been compiling these records?
WHY have some responded to news of the programs with alarm?
WHEN did this government surveillance program begin?
WHAT is the Prism program?
WHAT information do these programs seem to collect, warehouse and analyze?
WHERE was this news first reported?
HOW, according to James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, can the Prism information not be used?
HOW did the Obama administration and some members of Congress defend the program?
HOW do you feel about this news?
HOW does this raise new questions about the tradeoffs between security and civil liberties?
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