'You can't have 100% security and 100% privacy': Obama defends NSA's secret 'data-mining' and tries to dismiss it as 'a modest encroachment'
PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in spying program
The UK has had access to the PRISM data since at least 2010
Details of data collection were outlined in classified 41-slide PowerPoint presentation that was leaked by intelligence officer
PRISM was exposed one day after it was revealed that NSA has been collecting telephone records of Verizon customers
It is largest anti-terror intelligence-gathering operation since 9/11
Read more: 'They watch your ideas form as you type': Leaked top-secret documents reveal how U.S. intelligence agencies are tapping directly into servers of Apple, Google and Facebook to spy on their users | Mail Online
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PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges
Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in spying program
The UK has had access to the PRISM data since at least 2010
Details of data collection were outlined in classified 41-slide PowerPoint presentation that was leaked by intelligence officer
PRISM was exposed one day after it was revealed that NSA has been collecting telephone records of Verizon customers
It is largest anti-terror intelligence-gathering operation since 9/11
Read more: 'They watch your ideas form as you type': Leaked top-secret documents reveal how U.S. intelligence agencies are tapping directly into servers of Apple, Google and Facebook to spy on their users | Mail Online
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook