Now. Exactly which data is exposed for each provider?
I'm thinking mostly about Gmail. Because virtually everyone now is using it…
The whole content of any communications? Just origin/dest?
This is becoming scary.
I'm thinking mostly about Gmail. Because virtually everyone now is using it…
The whole content of any communications? Just origin/dest?
This is becoming scary.
According to slide 2, all of it. You might be confusing this with yesterday's Verizon story, which was "only" metadata -- caller, sender, time, and duration. This one is "actual" data -- email content, chat text, audio/video of VoIP calls.
(From the article, there's also a parallel NSA program (BLARNEY) that collects metadata only. I don't know why there's two of them).
Which is what is probably happening right now.
[1] https://www.google.com/intx/en/enterprise/apps/business/ [2] http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/customers.ht...
I think YouTube too, saw a mention of it in one of the articles linked from HN. Which I guess makes sense from their point of view, there was this case about 3 months ago of two Russian spies caught in Germany who had "taken orders" by way of YouTube comments (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732453200457836...).
And then of course there's all the "jihadist" YT videos (Arabic Nasheeds and all that) with lots of comments that may hold "useful" data, like IP addresses of those commenting. Of course I've long time ago created a YT playlist with a couple of these nasheeds (even though I don't understand a word some of them do sound really nice), which I hope to counter-act in NSA's eyes by my loyal membership to /r/murica and limitless fanboyism for the works of Thomas Paine.