Z:gnu-www-ja-surveillance-vs-democracy--2cb9d9-The NSA, through PRISM, has =3Ca/en

The NSA, through PRISM, has gotten into the databases of many large Internet corporations. AT&amp;T has saved all its phone call records since 1987 and makes them available to the DEA to search on request. Strictly speaking, the U.S. government does not possess that data, but in practical terms it may as well possess it.