U.S. Gathering Even More of Your Email, Text Messages
Perhaps it's to prove that the U.S. government isn't targeting individual Americans as part of the surveillance program known as Prism. But stories out this morning stemming from the classified materials Edward Snowden leaked to The Guardian is raising even more privacy concerns, revealing that the government is collecting a broader swath of email, phone and text messages from cross-border communications than previously thought, according to a report in The New York Times.
Perhaps it’s to prove that the U.S. government isn’t targeting individual Americans as part of the surveillance program known as Prism.
But stories out this morning stemming from the classified materials Edward Snowden leaked to The Guardian is raising even more privacy concerns, revealing that the government is collecting a broader swath of email, phone and text messages from cross-border communications than previously thought, according to a report in The New York Times.
An N.S.A. official told the Times that the government is casting a broad net for Americans’ communications, including information, such as an email address, that is linked in some way to a foreign target.
A 2008 rule for carrying out Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act law, listed among documents leaked by Snowden in June, mentions that the NSA “seeks to acquire communications about the target that are not to or from the target.’
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