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The U.S. intelligence agencies collect call data in the U.S. and have access the server cluster computing like Google and Facebook, practices inherited from the period of Bush’s presidency and approved by the Obama administration, according to two newspapers.

The debate over whether the U.S. government violates the rights of citizens to privacy while trying to protect them from terrorism, escalated dramatically yesterday with the information that the authorities collect data for millions of users phones and take data from server Nine companies of the Internet, transmitting the Athens News Agency.

The American political class reacted strongly to revelations of newspapers Guardian and Washington Post about “these practices, whose existence was suspected, but were never confirmed.

The Director of National Intelligence James Klaper said the leaks in both newspapers threaten national security. These disclosures are “a potential threat to our ability to identify and respond to risks that our country faces,” he writes in a statement that was published last night.

The White House, for its part, denied that it spy on U.S. citizens or persons living in the U.S., according to officials from the Obama administration that asked not to be named.

The British newspaper The Guardian published a secret court order which requires the U.S. telecommunications company Verizon to deliver the National Security Agency (NSA), at the request of the FBI, all telephone subscriber data from April to July, under a law had been passed after the attacks of 11 September 2001.

Parliamentarians confirmed then that the program exists in this systematic form since 2007, but it covers only “metadata” such as the number called and the duration of the call, and not the content of the talks.

Without officially confirm the existence of this program, the White House confirmed that it is necessary for the fight against terrorism.

«The subject” number one priority of the president is the national security of the United States. We must have the tools necessary to deal with the threats posed by terrorists, “said White House spokesman Josh Ernest.

system, prevented a major terrorist attack in the U.S. in recent years, even assured the Republican chairman of the Intelligence Services of the House of Representatives, Mike Rogers.

The information is grouped in a server of NSA, explained other parliamentarians, but not analyzed only when there are definite suspicions.

«If a number corresponding to” a terrorist number who called from a U.S. number then can be traced and may seek a court order to go further in “this particular case”, explained at a press conference the Saxmpi Tsamplis, the Republican vice chairman of the Committee on Information Services of the Senate.

A few hours later, the Washington Post and the Guardian claimed based on leaks from a former employee in intelligence that the NSA has direct access to the server Nine companies of the Internet, including the Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Google.

Thanks to a partnership with these companies, the service intelligence can directly and without a court order to read emails and listen to the conversations users when there is reasonable probability that one of the interlocutors be located abroad, as the American legislation requires a court order only when both partners are American.

Google has responded with an announcement in the two newspapers that federal agencies do not have any “hidden entry door” to the server.

Apple has also denied that he is aware of this program. “We do not provide any of” direct access to our server to government departments and any service of this kind seek data for a customer must have a court order, “claimed a spokesman, Steve Ntaoulingk.

But revelations Specify worst fears of supporters of civil liberties, trying to shed light on the use by the government of the “Patriot Act» (Patriot Act), which was passed after September 11.

«This exceeds Orwell complained Jamil Tzafer the NGO American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), citing the futuristic book” 1984 “by George Orwell.

Few parliamentarians, Democrats and Republicans, denounced an “unjustified and unacceptable” violation of privacy, said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

«The seizure and monitoring by the NSA of almost all Verizon customers is an impressive attack on the Constitution,” complained Republican Rand Paul.

In 2006, the newspaper USA Today had a shock revealing that the NSA secretly gathered data communications Americans from big telecommunications companies. The program is not concerned then only communications between a party in the USA and another abroad. Then the program was under the auspices of a secret court of 11 judges empowered to approve any interception.

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Verizon has merely said in a statement that the company is legally obliged to obey such an injunction.

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