Nothing to see here, move along – NSA uses data to map Americans’ social connections, report says | Fox News.
For almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans’ social connections, allowing the government to identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, The New York Times reported.
The documents Snowden provided indicated that the NSA can augment the communications data with material from public, commercial and other sources, including bank codes, insurance information, Facebook profiles, passenger manifests, voter registration rolls and GPS location information, as well as property records and unspecified tax data, the paper reported.
Move along, move along, nothing to see. Trust the government, they will keep you safe and take care of you.
The actual NYT article doesn’t show up on search engines, not sure why. If I find a link, I’ll post it here.
