Obama administration approves NSA data mining programs

A day after he Obama administration acknowledged the National Security Agency's mining of personal telephone data, a leaked report reveals a secret program to tap the servers of big Internet companies, the Guardian reported. The government has authorized the collection of the meta-data of the personal accounts of millions of Verizon users. Though actual telephone calls cannot be reviewed, users' location, call duration and telephone numbers are accessible.

At the same time, an NSA report proved to be authentic details the activities of PRISM, the code-name for a program that allows the agency to tap into the servers of Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Google, Facebook, Skype, TalkPal, YouTube and Apple for users' information such as photos, chat messages, videos and personal details.

The White House has said such measures are necessary for gathering information useful in counter-terrorism. Opponents have voiced concern that the executive office is operating beyond its legal reach.
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