The National Security Agency collected last year three times the phone and text message records it did the year before, a new report said on Friday. Credit Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters
New York Times: N.S.A. Triples Collection of Data From U.S. Phone Companies
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency vacuumed up more than 534 million records of phone calls and text messages from American telecommunications providers like AT&T and Verizon last year — more than three times what it collected in 2016, a new report revealed on Friday.
Intelligence analysts are also more frequently searching for information about Americans within the agency’s expanding collection of so-called call detail records — telecom metadata logging who contacted whom and when, but not the contents of what they said.
The new report — an annual set of surveillance-related statistics issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — did not explain why the number of records increased so dramatically. But in an interview, Alex Joel, the office’s chief civil liberties officer, said the N.S.A. had not reinterpreted its legal authorities to change the way it collects such data.
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12 comments:
This gang of intrusive spies began with a less virulent basis for doing what has grown over the years to so much domestic spying...
Anon,
Give up already. This is the Borg collective. Resistance is futile!
so too are the rights we won in 1776?
My post was in jest, which should be seen by the pop culture reference I made.
The reference is so pervasive that it is a trope.
Some of us do not wallow in pop culture
Pop culture has it uses.
You can communicate ideas or examples using pop culture references. Not all pop culture is bad.
It is not like you are going to communicate by referencing the classics. That is strictly verbotten. Arch liberals, unwashed practitioners of identity politics, and other wingnuts have made sure of that. Maybe you were part of that cultural jihad.
"Popular culture or pop culture is generally recognized as a set of practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture
Pop culture uses?
Have not helped you
Ps. McCain does not want your hero trump T funeral
McCain is like Benedict Arnold, a war hero turned traitor.
Would you want to be at Benedict Arnold's funeral?
I wouldn't, nor would I want to be at McCain's funeral.
The really sickening thing is that we have another patrician senator dying in office.
And neither one would have been there in the 1st place without family connections.
PS. The pop culture references work. People know them by definition. Well maybe people in ivory towers do not.
Pop is crap for I’ll educated
McCain was and is a hero
What have you done for your country other vomit hate
So Fred, you are a hoity toity high culture guy. Do I have that right?
Also, What does "I'll educated" mean?
What have I done? I served without crashing planes. I can get into schools without Daddy's clout.
There is doozy of a quote
"The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it." - John McCain
I pulled the lever for Palin not McCain. Stupid McCain let his consultants rip Palin up one side and down the other. With that going on McCain did not need opposition.
McCain has been in Congress for a 1/3rd of a century or more and he does not know finance. Un_______ believable especially since he should have learned his lesson with the Keating 5.
John's flying.
"who was at times careless and reckless; during the early to mid-1960s, two of his flight missions crashed and a third mission collided with power lines, but he received no major injuries" - wiki
Anon,
Fred asked "What have you done for your country other vomit hate"
I answered.
Oh and quit projecting.
Why smith? What does your skitso mind have with projecting? I am actually intrigued. Nice to see you are mostly putting sentences together nowdays, you must be well.
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