Ex-Microsoft Engineer: PRISM Is Highly Improbable For These Four Reasons

Earlier today, we spoke to a former Microsoft cloud systems engineer who seriously doubts a report published last night that alleges a partnership between tech companies and the NSA.

The Washington Post reported last night that the NSA has a secret program for spying on foreigners on the Internet. 

It's called PRISM.

According to documents obtained by the Post, PRISM allows the NSA to tap directly into the central servers of 9 big Internet companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.

The documents obtained by the Post say this is access is provided voluntarily by these tech firms.

With that access, the NSA is able to look at terabytes of private user photos, videos, private messages, and metadata.

The US government, which has since admitted that PRISM exists in some form, says it does not use the technology to spy on Americans, and that it is legal and court-supervised.