> the US authorities may have been reading her private Facebook messages for weeks.
That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on her.
That's ridiculous and puts the whole article under doubt. Nobody would waste that much time on her.
Long story short, it wouldn't necessarily waste much time to go through her records, and it would probably be completely legal.
The part that seems unlikely to me is that they would show their hand by using PRISM for such a small thing, unless there is some bigger reason they want her out of the country. It's hardly a sure argument, though.
I just don't find anything about that article logical.
Where this case differs is that the comments were over private messages - which means that the intel would have been collated covertly. So the real question is whether this is another piece of the PRISM jigsaw or just a sensationalist article cashing in on the hysteria that the NSA leaks have generated.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/30/leigh-van-bryan-a... (though in that case - I actually blame the visitors for posting dumb comments rather than the US government)