Social Media Newsfeed: NSA Contact Lists | Twitter IPO Update

The NSA has been looking through emails and instant messages from people in the United States and overseas. Twitter decides to list on New York Stock Exchange, not the NASDAQ, and much more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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NSA Collecting Millions of Contact Lists: Report (The Huffington Post/AP)
The National Security Agency has been sifting through millions of contact lists from personal email and instant messaging accounts around the world — including those of Americans — in its effort to find possible links to terrorism or other criminal activity, according to a published report. The Washington Post reported that the spy agency intercepts hundreds of thousands of email address books every day from private accounts on Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail that move through global data links.

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