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by conroy 4710 days ago
Other companies with projects named PRISM:

Palantir https://docs.palantir.com/metropolisdev/prism-overview.html

Mozilla (inactive) https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/prism/

CriticalBlue http://www.criticalblue.com/prism-technology.html

Goodwill http://www.goodwilltalentbridge.com/tb/projectPrism.aspx

Universities with projects named PRISM:

Texas Tech http://www.texastech.edu/it/prism.aspx

Georgia Tech http://pag.gatech.edu/prism

Princeton http://www.princeton.edu/prism/industry/industrial_affiliate...

While many of these projects have nothing to do with technology, they illustrate a point: PRISM was a great name for a project. The fact that Facebook has a "Project Prism" too is just coincidence.
3 comments
dualogy 4710 days ago
> PRISM is a great name for a project

---or was.

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conroy 4710 days ago
Agreed, I can't think of any tech company naming a project PRISM again, even if it's internal.
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kristopolous 4710 days ago
Oh I totally will. Back in the PPro days I called the project to get the workstations cointelpro - and I was just a snippy highschool kid then.

I'm totally going to do this.

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wavesounds 4710 days ago
Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
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Brock_Lee 4710 days ago
Also, I doubt that the NSA told Facebook that their surveillance project was called PRISM.
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