According to reports, The Washington Post has released four previously unpublished slides from the NSA's PowerPoint presentation on Prism. These new slides show how the government interfaced with nine companies, including such Google, Microsoft and Apple. Also, these slides showed on Prism worked. 

According to annotations to the slides by the Washington Post, the new material shows how the FBI "deploys government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company, such as Microsoft or Yahoo and pass it without further review to the NSA".

The new slides underline the scale of the Prism operation, recording that on 5 April there were 117,675 active surveillance targets in the programme's database. They also explain Prism's ability to gather real-time information on live voice, text, email or internet chat services, as well as to analyse stored data."

So what new companies came out as a result of these new slides being released? Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple. So what do these new slides exactly mean?

The new slides show how Prism interfaces with the internet companies as government agents track a new surveillance target."

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