{"id":7812,"date":"2014-07-10T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2014-07-10T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T14:34:36","slug":"the-voyeurs-at-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-voyeurs-at-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voyeurs at NSA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ordinary people ‘caught in NSA net’<\/h1>\n

Ninety percent of people identified in a tranche of communications intercepted by the NSA were ordinary internet users, not foreign surveillance targets, analysis by a US paper says.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n
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Much highly personal information was retained by the NSA, the paper says<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ninety percent of people identified in a tranche of communications intercepted by the NSA were ordinary internet users, not foreign surveillance targets,\u00a0analysis by a US paper<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post says innocents were “caught in a net the National Security Agency had cast for somebody else”.<\/p>\n

Much of the highly personal information was retained, the paper says, even though it had no intelligence value.<\/p>\n

The information was provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n

The paper said it reviewed some 160,000 emails and instant-messages and 7,900 documents from some 11,000 online accounts, gathered by the NSA between 2009 and 2012.<\/p>\n

The Post said that a four-month investigation it carried out revealed that nine out of 10 of the account holders – including many Americans – were not the intended surveillance targets.<\/p>\n

Much of the information has, the paper says, a “startlingly intimate, even voyeuristic quality” telling stories of “love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental-health crises, political and religious conversions, financial anxieties and disappointed hopes”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

SOURCE: BBC.COM<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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