Snowden Files: NSA Gathers Data on
Social Connections of US Citizens
29 September 13
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.
The spy agency began allowing the analysis of phone call and e-mail logs in November 2010 to examine Americans' networks of associations for Foreign intelligence purposes after N.S.A. officials lifted restrictions on the practice, according to documents provided by Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor.
The policy shift was intended to help the agency "discover and track" connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the United States, according to an N.S.A. memorandum from January 2011. The agency was authorized to conduct "large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check Foreignness" of every e-mail address, phone number or other identifier, the document said.
Because of concerns about infringing on the privacy of American citizens, the computer analysis of such data had previously been permitted only for Foreigners.
Editor:
This Policy Change is TREASON. The NSA is forbidden from spying on its owners, the Sovereign People of the United States of America. Since the NSA has corrupted CIA, FBI, DEA and DHS, the trail of Traitors is long, but must be pursued by the Department of Justice. Close the NSA, DHS, DEA, and let's start again with real controls over our Foreign Spies.
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