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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

28 September 2013

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"Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials."

See the full article: NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens (New York Times, link)

See also: Documents on N.S.A. Efforts to Diagram Social Networks of U.S. Citizens (link) which again emphasise that surveillance of anyone in the world is OK so long as they are careful when it comes to involving US citizens: "The primary new responsibility is the requirement: to enter a foreign intelligence (FI) justification for making a query or starting a chain"

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