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From the Intercept:
- What I've/we've Been Saying For A Very Long Time Now
The Guardian: The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality' William...
- And It Was All Justified And Perfectly Legal
Free Beacon (Gertz):NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One MonthTallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collectionThe National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period...
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Fox: NSA surveillance reach broader than publicly acknowledged The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former...
- Snowden In Moscow Where He Belongs
Fuck Obama should really just be the byline of every story on this blog. From the New York Times:HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government announced on Sunday afternoon that it had allowed the departure from its territory of Edward J. Snowden, the former...
- Is The Anything The Least Bit Surprising About This: U.s. Agencies Said To Swap Data With Thousands Of Firms
Bloomberg:Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people...
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NSA LISTENING TO YOU THROUGH YOUR PHONES, COMPUTERS AND DEVICES, CONVERTING SPOKEN WORDS INTO SEARCHABLE TEXT
From the Intercept:
Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record. But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either.
Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
The documents show NSA analysts celebrating the development of what they called “Google for Voice” nearly a decade ago. Though perfect transcription of natural conversation apparently remains the Intelligence Community’s “holy grail,” the Snowden documents describe extensive use of keyword searching as well as computer programs designed to analyze and “extract” the content of voice conversations, and even use sophisticated algorithms to flag conversations of interest.
The documents include vivid examples of the use of speech recognition in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as in Latin America. But they leave unclear exactly how widely the spy agency uses this ability, particularly in programs that pick up considerable amounts of conversations that include people who live in or are citizens of the United States.
Spying on international telephone calls has always been a staple of NSA surveillance, but the requirement that an actual person do the listening meant it was effectively limited to a tiny percentage of the total traffic.
By leveraging advances in automated speech recognition, the NSA has entered the era of bulk listening. And this has happened with no apparent public oversight, hearings or legislative action. Congress hasn’t shown signs of even knowing that it’s going on.
- What I've/we've Been Saying For A Very Long Time Now
The Guardian: The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney – that's a 'totalitarian mentality' William...
- And It Was All Justified And Perfectly Legal
Free Beacon (Gertz):NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One MonthTallies of top-secret documents show widespread data collectionThe National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period...
-
Fox: NSA surveillance reach broader than publicly acknowledged The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former...
- Snowden In Moscow Where He Belongs
Fuck Obama should really just be the byline of every story on this blog. From the New York Times:HONG KONG — The Hong Kong government announced on Sunday afternoon that it had allowed the departure from its territory of Edward J. Snowden, the former...
- Is The Anything The Least Bit Surprising About This: U.s. Agencies Said To Swap Data With Thousands Of Firms
Bloomberg:Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people...