Introduction to Information Systems, Binder Ready Version
Introduction to Information Systems, Binder Ready Version
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781119108009
Author: R. Kelly Rainer, Brad Prince
Publisher: WILEY
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Program Plan Intro

NSA:

NSA means National Security Agency, which was founded in 1952 used by U.S intelligence agency, which is responsible for global monitoring, decoding, translating and analyzing the information and data for foreign intelligence. U.S Congress gives permission to collect phone subscriber data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Advance in information technology helps the agency to analyze larger volumes of phone, internet traffic and financial data in order to search for the terrorist activities. It also launched data collection effort called PRISM in 2007 which gathers information from the Internet communications companies such as Google and Apple.

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