Based on documents released today, The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants. The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the document says. This is believed to be made available to police in order to stamp out organised crime. It has been in action since 2007.

US intelligence confirms it is collecting the private messages of internet users but defends the move, claiming the mass surveillance was targeting only "non-US persons" outside the country. Earlier British and American papers reported that the US was tapping directly into the servers of leading American internet companies, getting access to personal e-mails, photos and documents. A leaked court order has become the first hard evidence of Washington's sweeping data collection program. RT's Anastasia Churkina reports.
Eugene Puryear, an activist for the civil rights organization Answer Coalition, joins after to give his perspective on the issue.

What do you think? Should they be allowed to do such things?

It comes just after it was revealed Verizon phone record were available to NSA

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