NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day

ilikenwf writes "A new release from the files obtained by Edward Snowden have revealed that the NSA collects millions of text messages per day. These are used to gain travel plans, financial data, and social network data. The majority of these texts and data belong to people who are not being investigated for any crime or association. Supposedly, "non-US" data is removed, but we all know that means it is sent to a partner country for analysis, which is then sent back to the NSA."

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So they bugged my sister's phone?

[netsavior]

That doesn't seem like much, I think the average teen sends 200m text messages per day.

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