Who’s reading my emails?

According to the Washington Post, Internet companies including Google and Facebook are denying involvement in National Security Agency programs, named PRISM and BLARNEY, which allow the government to look at archived data and information as it is being transmitted. NBC’s Peter Alexander reports.

Sources confirmed to NBC News the existence of a secret government program called PRISM on Thursday, which they said allows intelligence agencies to peek into the servers of top tech companies and look at emails, video, photos, and other types of documents. According to intelligence officials, the program run by the NSA and Federal Bureau of Investigation engages in “data collection” as opposed to “data mining,” though how that distinction matters to a teen with a bunch of beer pong photos on Facebook remained foggy. Companies allegedly involved in the program denied giving the government “direct access” to their servers.