Yep, there is a constant upstream wiretap in the USA. This includes phone calls, texts and emails. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/ ht

Yep, there is a constant upstream wiretap in the USA. This includes phone calls, texts and emails. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/ This has been public knowledge since 2007. ;) PRISM helps the NSA in 2 ways: 1 - Collecting unencrypted versions of secured (https) communication. Note: They already have the encrypted copy. 2 - Collecting metadata, as in the case of Verizon. This allows them to make targeted database retrievals, from their massive data set.