Five Fun Things Edward Snowden Taught Us About The NSA

Five things:

  • Snowden1American telcos are compelled to routinely hand over metadata to the government
  • Digital surveillance programs capture vast amounts of data: PRISM and XKeyscore
  • US companies have done little to resist government pressure
  • NSA’s sister organization, GCHQ, does what the NSA can’t
  • NSA analysts even used capabilities to spy on their exes

Read more at arstechnica.com

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