NSA paying millions in compliance charges for tech companies? It's just $30-60 per individual...
Today, the cover of the guardian is a story titled: "NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies."
Back in late 2009, Wikileaks released the compliance manuals from many of the major telecoms/tech companies. While each companies compliance guide is formatted and structured differently, the same information is there. What information they keep on every user, and how much it costs for the company to provide that information to the NSA/law enforcement. Many of the companies have a section defining the legal requirements: ie. does providing this info require a search warrant, a subpoena, a National security letter, a court order, nothing... Most companies have prices for basic info(who you are/when you signed in and from where), for complete info(ie. everything they have on an individual), and then various middle grounds depending on their services.
The compliance charges are between ~$10-$100, depending on the company and the amount of information the NSA/law enforcement are demanding about an individual. But, assume for $30-60, most telecoms/tech companies will provide the NSA with all of the information they have on you.
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Below, I've linked in the compliance guides provided by the tech companies to the NSA/law enforcement.
Lets look at the Yahoo one for example: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf
In section III, it talks about what information Yahoo keeps(and for how long) for their various services:
* Basic/General Info(Who it is/where they logged in from(IP addr) and when)
* Yahoo Mail(contents of their email, including deleted emails)
* Yahoo Chat(how long they keep your chats saved)
* Flickr
* Yahoo Groups
* Yahoo Hosting(Geocities/Domains/etc)
* Yahoo Answers/misc other services
* Yahoo Partnerships(ATT, SBC, etc)
In section V, it talks about what the legal requirements are for them to disclose
In section VII, it talks about the costs:
* $10-20 for basic information(who you are, and when and where you were logged into the account)
* $30-40 for the complete contents of an individuals email account
* $40-80 for the complete contents of an individuals yahoo profile (chats, email, metadata, groups, etc al.)
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For reference: Lawful Spy Guides
Yahoo: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf
Microsoft: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/microsoft-spy.htm
Microsoft: http://cryptome.org//isp-spy/microsoft-spy.zip
Facebook: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/facebook-spy.pdf
Paypal: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/paypal-spy.zip
Cox Communications: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/cox-spy.pdf
Comcast: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/comcast-spy.pdf
Cisco: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/cisco-spy.pdf
Verizon: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/verizon-spy.pdf
Sprint: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/sprint-spy.zip
Sprint: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/sprint-spy2.pdf
ATT: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/att-spy-doc-01.pdf
ATT: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/att-spy-doc-02.zip
Cingular: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/cingular-spy.pdf
Nextel: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/nextel-spy.pdf
Cricket: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/cricket-spy.pdf
Pacific Tele: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/pactel-spy.pdf
GTE: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/gte-spy.pdf
Stickam: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/stickam-spy.pdf
Myspace: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/myspace-spy.pdf
Ameritech: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/ameritech-spy.pdf
SBC: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/sbc-lea-spy.pdf
SBC: http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/sbc-ameritech-spy.pdf
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