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

    I spotted the fed!

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    - In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
  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