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Much More Than a Transparent Optical Element, PRISM Is Now The Code Word For The Most Controversial Intelligence Gathering System, And Has Reignited The Debate Between National Security vs. Personal Privacy.

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Introduction             S ince 2007, we are living in a world where the most used and important verb is ... TO SHARE. Indeed, we are constantly sharing all type of information/data (pictures, articles, videos, emails) sometimes even without realizing it anymore. Perhaps, we are becoming so obsessed by this 'sharing culture' that when we see amazing pictures on a social network or that a friend is travelling around the world for instance, we don't really pay attention anymore or, at least, we tend to believe that 'it's normal'. But 2007 is also the year when Facebook started to expand its business, Apple launched its first generation of IPhone, Google opened Gmail for everyone, etc. In other words, with these new technologies, data become more important than before... Of course, PRISM was also created! Yesterday, a prism was just transparent optical element that refracts light.. Today, it is considered as one of the bigges...