Wait, media were talking about Prism before?
You have no idea the effect they had on terrorism. We can't tell with the information we have currently. We don't even know which information is true. Maybe they saved ton of terrorist attack, maybe they got multiple criminal or killers with that, but we won't know because they never said it was with the help of Prism.
All we know is that this project cost 20 millions, they had access to informations from a dozen companies, which is easily multiples hundred terabytes, probably even petabytes. I doubt 20 millions is enough to do anything useful with these informations. However can we even trust theses slides?...
Why on earth would you assume it's working? This is immoral and wrong, it's up to the government to show that it's buying us something (but I'd be against it even then). If they don't show that we should assume it hasn't stopped even one crime.
All we know is that this project cost 20 millions, they had access to informations from a dozen companies, which is easily multiples hundred terabytes, probably even petabytes. I doubt 20 millions is enough to do anything useful with these informations. However can we even trust theses slides?...