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Latest Snowden leak: Most data NSA collects is from non-targets |
July 06, 2014
Newly leaked documents show a large percentage of electronic communications intercepted by the NSA is from ordinary Internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, according to a new report from the Washington Post.The Post bases its assessment on the results of a four-month-long investigation and examination of 160,000 email and instant message exchanges provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, and it reveals that as many as 90 percent of those whose data was collected “were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else.” And many of those individuals were American citizens.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2449838/latest-snowden-leak-most-data-nsa-collects-is-from-non-targets.html#tk.rss_all
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