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NSA Official Disputes Chief's Claim That Agency Doesn't Collect American Data

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-have-you-been-talking-to? dept.

NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander was playing a "word game" when he said the agency does not collect files on Americans according to William Binney, a former technical director at the NSA. Binney says the NSA does indeed collect e-mails, Twitter writings, internet searches and other data belonging to Americans and indexing it. "Unfortunately, once the software takes in data, it will build profiles on everyone in that data," he said. "You can simply call it up by the attributes of anyone you want and it's in place for people to look at."

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  1. Google... by Razgorov+Prikazka · · Score: 3, Funny

    would never do that :-)

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    rm -rf --no-preserve-root / ...and let /dev/null sort them out...
    1. Re:Google... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      would lie about it until they got caught red-handed with the data they didn't collect.

      Then they'd say it was a coding error.

      Then they'd get caught with the same data years later, and say it was ANOTHER "error".

      Meanwhile, fanbois would be making all kinds of excuses.

  2. Where's my T-Shirt? by o_ferguson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I spotted the fed!

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  3. Re:Am I screwed? (not a US citizen) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about your criticism of the TSA or healthcare, but speaking out against Apple is a serious offense.

  4. Re:Illegal Shmegal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nice try NSA

  5. IMAGINE MY SURPISE! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 1, Funny

    A Spymaster for a World-spanning Empire TOLD A LIE!

    I am outraged that some chief-spook would deceive and disinform in a forum where his unstated goal was merely to manipulate public opinion and recruit talent.

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    Never been known to fail..."