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LOL, where are all the NSA defenders now?
WASHINGTON The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
A secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, indicates that NSA sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency's Fort Meade, Md., headquarters. In the last 30 days, field collectors had processed and sent back more than 180 million new records ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video, the Post reported Wednesday on its website.
The latest revelations were met with outrage from Google, and triggered legal questions, including whether the NSA may be violating federal wiretap laws.
"Although there's a diminished standard of legal protection for interception that occurs overseas, the fact that it was directed apparently to Google's cloud and Yahoo's cloud, and that there was no legal order as best we can tell to permit the interception, there is a good argument to make that the NSA has engaged in unlawful surveillance," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of Electronic Privacy Information Center. The reference to 'clouds' refers to sites where the companies collect data.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/30/4586459/report-nsa-broke-into-yahoo-google.html
MADem
(135,425 posts)I can't help but laugh like hell that Google is "outraged." Where was their outrage when they were reading their customers' emails and targeting advertisements to them?
Logical
(22,457 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I am covered under TRICARE.
Not sure what your question has to do with my expectation of privacy, though.
If I use the internet, I acknowledge the risk of "data loss" because I don't regard the internet as private.
I never have.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)But I have to add the NSA as entities I can't trust to respect the Constitution. Nice. Isn't it.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)And the NSA is only collecting metadata.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)http://news.techworld.com/security/3471450/john-mcafee-proposes-anti-surveillance-d-central-router-to-beat-the-nsa/
MADem
(135,425 posts)told me "It can't be done."
Ha!
jsr
(7,712 posts)Response to Logical (Original post)
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jsr
(7,712 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a "stunning admission." It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to explain their role in the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign nationals.
"Google has finally admitted they don't respect privacy," said John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's privacy project director. "People should take them at their word; if you care about your email correspondents' privacy, don't use Gmail."
Google set out its case last month in an attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit that accuses the tech giant of breaking wire tap laws when it scans emails sent from non-Google accounts in order to target ads to Gmail users.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit
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