The NSA chose Christmas to detail 12 years of accidental spying
The NSA chose Christmas to detail 12 years of accidental spying.
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While you and I were enjoying time with our families and suffering through Grandmas stories, the NSA decided to let loose some of their family secrets. On Christmas Eve, long after wed all checked out mentally in anticipation of Christmas, the NSA gifted us with a file dump of all the times theyve illegally spied on us. If youre thinking oh, good, Ill command-F for my name, think again. The files are heavily redacted, and only discuss the instances of erroneous spying.
The files were in response to a lawsuit brought by the tenacious Americans Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed under the Freedom of Information Act. Some of whats in the files youve already heard of here and there, so not all of it is revelatory. In fact, you probably know most of what the NSA is unveiling (or not unveiling) today.
Heres how the NSA explains away their grabbing info on the everyman:
NSA goes to great lengths to ensure compliance with the Constitution, laws and regulations. As conveyed in the released materials, an array of technical and human-based checks attempt to identify and correct errors, some amount of which occur naturally in any large, complex system. Nevertheless, as the IOB reports make clear, NSA takes even unintentional errors seriously and institutes corrective action, typically involving at a minimum a combination of training and technical measures designed to prevent recurrences. Data incorrectly acquired is almost always deleted, referred to as the purge process.
With statements like that and redacted documents, its clear the NSA is intent on forging ahead as usual. If they grabbed your info unwittingly, you should just trust theyll purge it, right? I mean, theres an array of stopgaps to keep it from happening.
Indeed, their complex system is imperfect, too. Data being stored on servers not authorized to house it, searches bringing info back on citizens not on the watch list, and stalking of significant others so rampant it warranted its own moniker.
The redacted documents reach back to 2007, so at least we get a rough idea of how many times the NSA screwed up in grabbing info on us.
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Incoming NSA chief Admiral Michael Rogers has moved to downplay the significance of Edward Snowden's revelations about the spy agency.
Ex-CIA worker Snowden exposed the organisation's controversial PRISM programme, which involves the collection of phone and email data, before fleeing the US.
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However, Admiral Rogers insists that Snowden's whistleblowing has not damaged the NSA's anti-terrorism operations.
"I have seen [terrorist] groups not only talk about making changes, I have seen them make changes," he told the New York Times.
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Admiral Rogers went on to say that tighter controls are in place to ensure that future leaks do not occur, and promised to offer more transparency about his organisation's practices by engaging in "public dialogue".
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