Washington Post report says half surveillance files collected between 2009 and 2012 belonged to US citizens or residents When the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted the online accounts of legally targeted foreigners over a four-year period it also collected the conversations of nine times as many ordinary internet users, both Americans and non-Americans, according to an investigation by the Washington Post. Nearly half of those surveillance files contained names, email addresses or ot...
NSA intercepts: ordinary internet users 'far outnumbered' legal targets
The Guardian - 6 Jul 2014 06:55
Washington Post report says half surveillance files collected between 2009 and 2012 belonged to US citizens or residents When the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted the online accounts of legally targeted foreigners over a four-year period it also collected the conversations of nine times as many ordinary internet users, both Americans and non-Americans, according to an investigation by the Washington Post. Nearly half of those surveillance files contained names, email addresses or ot...
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