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Prism

Prism
The Prism programme came to light when former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of the NSA’s collection of telephone and Internet data to The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers in June 2013. Snowden, who fled his job in Hawaii, went into hiding in Hong Kong.
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