Speaking to an audience of hackers and security professionals at the 16th annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander defended the PRISM program and the NSA’s cache of phone metadata as necessary to protect the lives of American citizens and overseas allies. He also said that the programs are tightly monitored and that – in addition to technical tools that limit what analysts can access — all analysts are audited to be sure they have justification for any data they access. …read more
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