The U.S. surveillance program PRISM has severely threatened the continued freedom of Internet advocates, according to Rajnesh Singh, a regional bureau director for the Internet Society.
Recent reports have revealed the NSA, under a program called PRISM, is collecting metadata about U.S. phone calls, which includes information about a call—time, duration, and location—but not the content of the call itself. Also, the NSA is collecting data on Internet traffic from major Internet companies, including Google and Microsoft.
"What's happened with PRISM and the fallout we've seen is probably the greatest threat we have seen to the Internet in recent times," Singh said at a recent ISOC-AU event Sydney.
Singh, who said he was speaking for himself and not necessarily ISOC as a whole, claimed that the spying program has undermined the positions of Internet advocates in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, which historically have been "bastions of Internet freedom."
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