How was the government collecting data from American companies besides having the companies cooperate?

By hacking into the companies data centers in other countries.

How is PRISM different from the other domestic spying program?

It was about the sharing of content, not metadata.

What did the government ask the Washington Post reporter not to publish?

The names of the nine companies cooperating with PRISM.

What did google claim about the information that they scanned in Gmail?

That it was not permanently stored.

Why did Snowden choose Hong Kong?

He thought the Chinese wouldn't turn him in.

What did the president do to deal with the outcry after the story broke?

He appointed a commission to study the situation and make recommendations.

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1
Which paper refused to wait and broke the story first?
The Guardian
The New York Times
The Times of London
The Washington Post
2
Where did Snowden get trapped?
grand Central Station
the Moscow airport
the Philippines
Hong Kong
3
How was the government collecting data from American companies besides having the companies cooperate?
By swapping peoples phones with special phones that steal information.
By stealing paper files stored at company warehouses.
By hacking into the companies data centers in other countries.
4
What place did Snowden choose to meet with reporters?
Hong Kong
New York
London
Moscow
5
What did google do to Gmail in order to make more advertising money?
It started charging people for access to their emails.
Sold peoples email addresses to magazine companies.
Used peoples email addresses to sign them up for other services.
It read peoples emails.
6
How is PRISM different from the other domestic spying program?
It only surveilled politicians.
It was announced by the Whitehouse.
It was about the sharing of content, not metadata.
It was about only viewing metadata.
7
What did the government ask the Washington Post reporter not to publish?
The name of the program.
How long the program had been in place.
The names of the nine companies cooperating with PRISM.
Edward Snowden's name.
8
Who, besides the government, had their image hurt by the revelations?
American technology companies
The newspapers for falling behind in the reporting.
Lawyers for approving such programs.
9
What are the files placed in a browser that allows websites to track you called?
muffins
cookies
brownies
trackies
10
How many companies refused to cooperate with the government's program?
3
30
300
1
11
Who decided which documents to publish?
the government
the journalists
the tech companies
Snowden
12
What did google claim about the information that they scanned in Gmail?
That it was not permanently stored.
It was only the addresses and subject lines.
That it was not personally identifiable.
It was only metadata.
13
Why did Snowden choose Hong Kong?
He thought the Chinese wouldn't turn him in.
There were no surveillance programs there.
As part of China there is a long history of freedom of speech.
That's where he was working for NSA.
14
What did the president do to deal with the outcry after the story broke?
He appointed a commission to study the situation and make recommendations.
He arrested the journalists for compromising national security.
He denied that the government was collecting information on anyone.
He paused the domestic surveillance program
15
What did Snowden demand the reporters remove from his hotel room.
iPhone
camera
voice recorder

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