Thursday, October 24, 2013

124 Billion Phone Calls Were Monitored By The NSA During One Month

Report: NSA Spied On 124 Billion Phone Calls In One Month -- Washington Free Beacon

Tallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collection.

The National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.

Documents revealing details about the NSA’s Boundless Informant program show that information regarding billions of phone calls and computer communications was collected by the agency from across the world.

Boundless Informant “allows users to select a country on a map and view the meta data volume and select details about the collections against that country,” according to the Guardian, which first reported on the top secret program earlier this year.

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My Comment: This is getting out of hand .... they are essentially scooping up all electronic communications.

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