A recently published NSA classified slide reveals that US government uses undersea cables which criss-cross the world for its surveillance program.
According to the Fox News, the classified slide reveals the step-by-step guidance to NSA personnel about the way snooping can be conducted using both the programs.
It suggested to implement the 'Prism' program, which is the usual data collection from tech companies for 'metadata' and also putting to use undersea fiber-optic cables that contain gobs of voice and Internet data.
The revealed contained a rough map of North America, showing the undersea cables fanning out from the West and East coasts of the US, to the rest of the world.
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