NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed

The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed -- The Atlantic Wire

As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated.

Chris Inglis, the agency's deputy director, was one of several government representatives—including from the FBI and the office of the Director of National Intelligence—testifying before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. Most of the testimony largely echoed previous testimony by the agencies on the topic of the government's surveillance, including a retread of the same offered examples for how the Patriot Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had stopped terror events.

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My Comment: Ever since Edward Snowden started to leak NSA intel .... we are learning more and more on how the NSA operates. And with each passing week .... we are learning that their surveillance and data accumulation programs are far more extensive and deeper than what they have told us before.

Update: Six degrees of separation, NSA-style -- Gigaom