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NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails

• Schneier on Security

.... When Turner said that in 2013, we knew from the Snowden documents that the NSA was still collecting some Americans' Internet metadata from communications links between the US and abroad. Now we have more proof. It turns out that the NSA never stopped collecting e-mail metadata on Americans. They just cancelled one particular program and changed the legal authority under which they collected it....

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Comment by Powell Gammill
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The Prism. Privacy in an age of publicity.

Interesting history of the western democracies spying on its own citizens. And their reactions over time.

"An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile in London, became convinced that the British government was opening his mail. ...."



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