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by CobrastanJorji 2517 days ago
PRISM was the one with FISA warrants, where the government lawfully acquired data from Google via formal processes.

MUSCULAR was the the one where the NSA tapped Google's inter-datacenter fiber lines in order to spy on their internal traffic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...

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naturally its hard to keep track of all their cute code names, at the end of the day all the data ends up queryable by analysts with nothing resembling a warrant process