The NSAs Spying Agenda on Americans Fabian Barraza 11/22/14

Who is the NSA National Security Agency Formed in 1952 responsible for global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes Motto: "Defending Our Nation. Securing The Future.“ NSA is also charged with protection of U.S. government communications and information systems against penetration and network warfare

NSAs Warrantless Searches National Security Agency has used a "back door" in surveillance law to perform warrantless searches on Americans’ communications The NSA's collection programs are supposedly targeted at foreigners Director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has confirmed the use of this legal authority to search for data related to “US persons” One of the NSA's controversial program called Prism, allows the agency to collect data from Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo and other tech companies Before the NSA wasn’t allowed to search for information among US citizens but after October 2011 a court ruling approved just that

Americans Targeted in NSA Searches Nine of 10 of intercepted conversations were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else Nearly half of the surveillance files contained names, addresses or other details that the NSA marked as belonging to U.S. citizens or residents The daily lives of more than 10,000 account holders who were not targeted are catalogued and recorded nevertheless Many of the photos and conversations collected are rather personal to the owners ◦Medical Records ◦Job Resumes ◦Academic Transcripts of students ◦Infants and toddlers in bathtubs, swings, being held by their mothers ◦Men showing of their bodies ◦Women modeling lingerie

NSAs Use of Smartphone Apps The NSA is tapping into smartphone apps to peek into the personal data including age, location, sex and even sexual preferences The agency uses Google Maps, which can pinpoint a phone owner's whereabouts Angry Birds maker Rovio said it had no knowledge of the NSA tapping into its users’ data The president is quoted in his Jan. 17 speech, “to the extent data is collected by the NSA, through whatever means, we are not interested in the communications of people who are not valid foreign intelligence targets and we are not after the information of ordinary Americans”.

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