Text-Message-Surveillance

NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide

2014-01-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Guardian, citing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, revealed that the National Security Agency was collecting almost 200 million text messages per day from around the world through a program codenamed DISHFIRE. According to the leaked documents from 2011, the program collected “pretty …

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