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Australian government knew about PRISM before Snowden revelations
Highly-redacted documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show the Australian Attorney-General’s Department prepared a secret briefing on the US PRISM spying program months before it was exposed in Edward Snowden’s leaks.
The documents in question were requested and obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
They reveal that the Attorney-General’s Department had a...