October 15th Cybersecurity Update – NSA Email

The National Security Agency has been gathering contact lists from private e-mail accounts and sifting through them, looking for hidden connections. The collecting occurs overseas, but end up scooping information from some Americans’ accounts. The Washington Post reports, NSA has collected hundreds of millions of lists. The new revelation comes from documents leaked by Edward Snowden. In one day, the NSA gathered more than 700 thousand contact lists from Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, and Gmail. It also collects millions of buddy lists from live chat services. The Post quotes an NSA spokesman saying the program targets terrorists, human traffickers and drug dealers.

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