Friday, July 11, 2014

That whole "NSA spies on terrorists" thing? Yeah - maybe not so much.

NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in "targeted surveillance" (Click here to view the source)

Cory Doctorow · Sunday, July 06, 2014, 12:19 pm
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A huge cache of NSA surveillance data found that for every person of suspicion whose communications are caught in the spy-net, nine more people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing are also surveilled. Many of these innocents are Americans, whom the NSA is legally prohibited from spying upon. Cory Doctorow looks at what the NSA means when it says "targeted.
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