Many details about PRISM and related cyberintelligence initiatives, including
Tempora and XKeyScore, are still unknown by the public, though news coverage following June 6, 2013 was thorough and steady.
5 For the first time since 2009, the U.S. national newspaper USA Today reported on government surveillance on its front page,7 and The Washington Post ran a front-page article on the invasion of privacy for the first time in 2013,16 prompting contentious discussion of the revelations among privacy experts, as well as politicians and advocates, worldwide.