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by paganel 1649 days ago
On top of that I assume that the NSA (mostly) still has a PRISM-like programme in place, it would be foolish to assume otherwise. More exactly I do think that they (NSA and some other agencies) still have direct access to the servers of Google, MS, Facebook and Apple.

But I 100% agree with you, such lowly use-cases like the SEC chasing some bankers don't register on NSA's (and similar agencies') radar, it's only money, after all, I think they're more interested in dealings involving power itself.