Which Internet Companies Are Giving Our Private Data to the Government?

"The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post."*

We now know that the NSA was and is getting phone records from millions of Americans, but the Washington Post has uncovered that the Obama administration is also overseeing data mining of 9 major internet companies under PRISM. A huge amount of personal data is being monitored more closely than most ever thought possible. Is this Obama's "change?" Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investi...

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