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[ NNSquad ] Another claimed NSA leak: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data 

Another claimed NSA leak: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool
to track global surveillance data 

http://j.mp/13NM38D  (Guardian)

    The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for
    recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising
    questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot
    keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American
    communications.  The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents
    about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that
    details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of
    information it collects from computer and telephone networks ...
    The focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing
    the records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the
    content of an email or instant message.  The Boundless Informant
    documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of
    intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending
    in March 2013. One document says it is designed to give NSA
    officials answers to questions like, "What type of coverage do we
    have on country X" in "near real-time by asking the SIGINT [signals
    intelligence] infrastructure." ... 

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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Founder:
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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