Shia LaBeouf of Transformers fame warned the masses about the government spying that has been in the news lately in the unlikeliest of places-Jay Leno's couch.
In 2008, while promoting Eagle Eye, a movie about the omnipresent American military overstepping privacy boundaries, he told Leno and his studio audience about illegal wiretaps he learned about from an FBI source.
"I remember we had an FBI consultant on the picture telling me that they can use your ADT security box microphone to get your stuff that's going on in your house," LaBeouf told host Jay Leno. "He told me that 1 in 5 phones calls which you make are recorded and logged and I laughed at him and then he played back a phone conversation I had two years prior to joining the picture."
The current scandal LaBeouf seems to have "warned" of is called PRISM, a government program that monitors e-mail accounts, photos and search histories culled from the biggest American internet companies. That data is supposed to be used for gathering intelligence against potential terrorist threats, and to help be a step ahead of well-oiled terrorism organizations.
According to reports, these companies might not even be willingly participating in this National Security Agency (NSA) program. Larry Page, the CEO of Google said, " Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users' Internet activity on such a scale is completely false."
The internet companies used by NSA in PRISM, aside from Google, are Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, Skype, AOL, and Apple. Despite the strong denial of Page and his fellow executives, Mike Janke, CEO of an encrypted communications service called Silent Circle isn't buying it.
"[The tech companies] are wordsmithing -- they didn't know it was called PRISM, maybe, but they were asked to provide access," Janke told CNNMoney. "Otherwise the government would be sending subpoenas every five seconds."
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