235 Things We've Learned About the NSA



(Updated: June 4, 2016)





Hundreds of pages of newly-released documents reveal that the NSA misled

public about Snowden’s efforts to raise concerns about surveillance

within the organization.



Vice, June 4, 2016





Former Attorney General Eric Holder now admits that Edward Snowden

performed a public service'.



CNN, May 30, 201

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The Pentagon’s long history of punishing NSA whistleblowers.



The Guardian, May 22, 2016





Lack of online privacy has chilling effect, changing web behavior of 45% of

the public.



Motherboard, May 14, 2016





Stanford study shows how phone data mining by NSA poses a threat to

privacy of ordinary citizens.



The Guardian, May 16, 2016





NSA and CIA have doubled their warrantless searches since the release of

the Snowden revelations.



The Intercept, May 3, 2016





Congress isn’t allowed to know how many US citizens are under NSA surveillance.



ZDNet, April 24, 2016





NSA surveillance data of private citizens now available for “routine queries

unrelated to national security.”



The Guardian, March 8, 2016





John McAfee: The NSA's back door has given every US secret to our enemies

.





Business Insider, February 26, 2016





NSA data to be shared with other agencies without any privacy protections

applied.



New York Times, February 25, 2016





Secret memo reveals government’s plan to crack encryption on all cellphone

communications.



Bloomberg, February 19, 2016





The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people



Ars Technica, February 16, 2016





Former NSA boss defends end-to-end encryption—says FBI plan would make us

less safe.



CNN, January 13, 2016





Former NSA security chief-turned-whistleblower says plan for bulk collection of

communications data is ‘99% useless’



The Guardian, January 6, 2016





US spies want surveillance on everyone…except on the spies.



Washington Post, December 29, 2015





NSA spying on Israel also involved surveillance on members of Congress.



Politico, December 29, 2015





NSA helped British spies find security holes in Juniper firewalls.



The Intercept, December 23, 2015





Major provider of firewalls protecting consumer data is compromised; NSA

suspected.



Boing Boing, December 21, 2015





NSA will spy on you for reading this article.



BGR, December 16, 2015





NSA reform bill allows more spying



National Journal, December 15, 2015





NSA has found a way to create a “functional equivalent” of its illegal bulk

email collection—and with less court oversight.



New York Times, November 19, 2015





Leaked NSA document contains admission that ‘sheer luck’ is necessary to

find useful info in a sea of surveillance data.



RT, November 19, 2015





Senate passes bill allowing a wide range of federal agencies access to

government spy data and business data on private citizens.



The Guardian, October 27, 2015





IRS is now using the same warrantless spy technology as the NSA.



Washington Examiner, October 26, 2015





Judge makes it impossible to sue NSA for spying on you unless you can access

its secret spy data.



Newsweek, October 26, 2015





NSA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year to break the web

encryption that maintains the security of the Internet.



Ars Technica, October 15, 2015





Feds want to destroy video of Purdue lecture on the NSA.



Ars Technica, October 8, 2015





Rogue NSA operation may have caused the death of a Greek telecom worker.



The Intercept, September 28, 2015





Wikipedia lawsuit alleging unconstitutionality of NSA upstream data collection

goes to court



US News, September 25, 2015





NSA snooping may endanger safe harbor agreement with EU



Export Law Blog, September 24, 2015





Newly released documents show NSA aids hackers by not telling tech

companies of security flaws in their software



The Register, September 4, 2015





NSA enjoyed a special relationship with AT&T and praised the company in

internal documents for its “extreme willingness to help.”



New York Times, August 15, 2015





NSA targeted cell phones and private communications of more than a

dozen Brazilian officials



First Look, July 4, 2015





NSA not only spied on German government but also on German magazine

Der Spiegel.



Daily Mail, July 4, 2015





Wikieaks drops new documents detailing NSA’s hobby of spying on allies.



TechCrunch, July 1, 2015





How the NSA operates its own search engine to snoop on the whole world’s

private communications.



First Look, July 1, 2015





Without public notice or debate, NSA has expanded warrantless surveillance

of American’s web activities.



New York Times, June 4, 2015





FBI admits Patriot Act didn’t help solve any major terrorist cases.



This Week, May 22, 2015





New NSA documents reveal plans to deliver malware through the Google

app store.



First Look, May 21, 2015





Former NSA Inspector General: US companies have lost more than $100

billion in business because of NSA mass surveillance.



Associated Press, May 15, 2015





NSA converting phone call conversations into searchable text.



First Look, May 5, 2015





Former NSA official claims the agency “is so overwhelmed with data,

it is no longer effective.”



ZDNet. April 30, 2105





Documents reveal official misled Congress about NSA spying.



Bloomberg, April 25, 2015





Experts struggle to find a single instance in which warrantless spying

thwarted a terrorist attack.



New York Times, April 24, 2015





NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted

data.



The Verge, April 12, 2015





NSA has set aside a special room for watching porn.



Gizmodo, April 6, 2015





iPhone encryption ‘petrified’ NSA.



CNBC, March 18, 2015





American and British spies hack largest manufacturer of SIM cards to

steal encryption codes.



First Look, February 19, 2015





Hacker claims FBI charged him with 44 felonies when he refused to become a

government spy.



Wired, February 18, 2015





NSA planted spyware on disk drives in 30 different countries.



CNET, February 17, 2015





One year after the President proposed halting bulk collection of data, it

continues.



NPR, February 4, 2015





No one knows what happened to NSA staffers who snooped on their lovers



Ars Technica, February 2, 2015





NSA has capability to capture all Skype traffic



Ars Technica, December 30, 2014





NSA waits until Christmas Eve to release 12 years of reports documenting

abusive and improper practices.



First Look, December 26, 2014





40 federal government agencies now spy on citizens, with agents posting

as doctors, ministers, accountants, etc.



New York Times, November 15, 2014





Pew Research finds that 80% of Americans are concerned about

government monitoring of email and phone calls.



Pew Research, November 12, 2014





NSA head invested in tech company that had a ‘sweetheart deal’ with

one of the spy agencies leading sources of information.



The Daily Beast, November 3, 2014





Congress still has not idea how much the NSA spies on US citizens.



The Atlantic, October 30, 2014





Congress investigating deal between NSA official and a controversial

private company run by ex-NSA chief.



Reuters, October 20, 2014





Social media app Whisper promises anonymity but share info with the

US government and stores user data indefinitely in a searchable

database.



The Guardian, October 16, 2014





NSA agents may have infiltrated the global communications industry.



First Look, October 10, 2014





NSA plans to launch summer camps in all 50 states to influence and

enlist the help of teenagers.



First Look, October 9, 2014





Google chairman warns government surveillance will break the Internet



National Journal, October 8, 2014





Germany handed law-protected private data over to the NSA for years.



RT, October 4, 2014





NSA documents include Orwellian demands that employees change the

definition of familiar words.



ACLU, September 29, 2014





School sets up surveillance program to spy on students after getting a call

form the NSA.



WHNT News, September 24, 2014





Does the NSA have the right to impose a $117 trillion fine—more than the

value of all the assets on planet Earth—on companies that won’t spy? The

US Dept of Justice thinks so.



Washington Post, September 15, 2014





US government threatened secret fine of $250,000 per day on Yahoo if it didn't

supply private user data to NSA spies.



The Guardian, September 11, 2014





How third-party companies you’ve never heard of—such as Neustar,

Subsentio, and Yaana—make profits seizing your private data for the NSA.



ZDNet, September 5, 2014





The NSA can brand you as a terrorist based on a Facebook post.



The Guardian, August 30, 2014





NSA workers believe executive order 12333 authorizes them to “own

the internet”—even in violation of federal statues.



Ars Technica, August 27, 2014





The NSA built its own secret Google so government employees in two

dozen agencies can search your phone calls and emails.



First Look, August 25, 2014





NSA spies trying to hack the Syrian Internet accidentally knocked the

entire system.



Wired, August 12, 2014





Nearly half of the 680,000 individuals on the government’s terrorist watch

list have no terrorist affiliation.



The Intercept, August 5, 2014





1.5 million people added to the Terrorism Watch List in the last 5 years—and

have no legal recourse or way of challenging their status.



Associated Press, July 18, 2014





China blocks government purchases of Apple, Microsoft and Symantec

products because of concerns that they are infected with US spy tools.



Bloomberg, August 6, 2014





US dramatically expands definition of terrorist—new guidelines state

that “concrete facts are not necessary” and profiling is acceptable.



First Look, July 23, 2014





Snowden: Dropbox is a NSA surveillance target.



Boing Boing, July 18, 2014





NSA spies routinely share nude photos collected during surveillance.



The Guardian, July 17, 2014





Spies hack online polls, censor videos and manipulate the web to

influence public opinion.



First Look, July 14, 2014





At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and

stored in the US.



The Guardian, July 10, 2014





Germany expels CIA bureau chief over NSA spying



RT, July 10, 2014





NSA spied on prominent Muslim-American citizens without any cause

other than their exercise of First Amendment freedom of speech rights.



First Look, July 9, 2014





90% of NSA surveillance targets are innocent citizens, not terrorists.



Washington Post, July 5, 2014





Secret Court renews (again) NSA phone surveillance program that

privacy advocates argue is unconsitutional.



Politico, June 20, 2014





NSA uses video-game style ‘reward points’ to encourage employees to

do more spying.



Washington Post, June 18, 2014





NSA operates at least a dozen espionage sites in Germany.



Der Speigel, June 18, 2014





Governments use secret cables to tap phones.



The Telegraph, June 6, 2014





NSA use of face recog

n

ition software to track US citizens is

perfectly legal…according to the NSA.



Bloomberg, June 3, 2014





NSA is collection millions of faces from web images.



New York Times, May 31, 2014





NSA put on notice over encryption standards.



Pacific Standard, May 30, 2014





FBI, DEA and other agencies now relying on NSA for spy data

on US citizens.



Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 20, 2014





The NSA is recording every cell phone call in the Bahamas.



First Look, May 19, 2014





Cisco Systems CEO outraged at photo of NSA spies

opening packages of his company’s equipement in order

to install surveillance software.



CBC, May 18, 2014





How the NSA tampers with web routers to spy on people

—incorporating the same backdoor surveillance functionality

that the US complains about in Chinese tech.



The Guardian, May 12, 2014







"We kill people based on metadata."



New York Review of Books, May 10, 2014





US government spies prohibits news coverage that cites leaked

material—so authors of all the articles cited on this page must

go to jail!



New York Times, May 8, 2014





Edward Snowden: NSA spies more on Americans than on other

countries.



National Journal, April 30, 2014





Surveillance Court rejects Verizon's challenge to NSA spy data

collection on "virtually every citizen."



CBS, April 29, 2014





Pulitzer cites government intimidation and "inappropriate use of

terrorism laws" in giving award for reporting on NSA spying abuses.



CNN, April 14, 2014





NSA has presidential authorization to exploit internet security

flaws to conduct spying.



New York Times, April 12, 2014





NSA denies knowing about Heartbleed exploit, but it bears

an uncanny resemblance to the agency’s Bullrun program to

circumvent web encryption.



New York Times, April 11, 2014





Sources say NSA knew about Heartbleed web security flaw

for at least two years, and used it regularly for spying.



Bloomberg, April 11, 2014







NSA refuses Angela Merkel’s request to see her NSA file.



The Guardian, April 10, 2014





Director of National Intelligence admits NSA performed

warrantless searches of US citizens' email and phone calls.



The Guardian, April 1, 2014





NSA spied on 122 world leaders.



RT, March 29, 2014





Jimmy Carter believes the NSA is reading his emails.



Time, March 23, 2013





NSA tracks down the private email and Facebook accounts of

system administrators to get access to their networks.



First Look, March 20, 2014





NSA has developed capability to record 100% of the phone

calls in a foreign country, and keep them in storage.



Washington Post, March 18, 2014





How the NSA plans to infect ‘millions’ of computers with malware.



First Look, March 12, 2014





NSA views encryption as evidence of suspicion and will target those

who use it.



Venture Beat, March 10, 2014





Snowden raised concerns over NSA abuses internally to more

than ten different officials, none of whom took action, before

going to the press.



Washington Post, March 7, 2014





British spies, with help from NSA, collect 4 million private webcam

photos of people in their homes.



The Guardian, February 27, 2014





Snowden biographer claims his text would ‘self-delete’ when he wrote

about NSA



BetaBeat, February 25, 2014





American Bar Association issues formal complaint over NSA violating attorney-client

confidentiality.



The Hill, February 24, 2014





As a favor to German leader Merkel, the NSA no longer spies on

her—but has switched to spying on her aides and ministers.



Deutsche Welle, February 23, 2014





AT&T’s surveillance transparency report neglects to mention that it

hands over information on 80 million customers to the NSA.



Wired, February 21, 2014





Within hours of The Guardian publishing Snowden’s first revelations,

‘diggers’ showed up outside both its NY and Washington office, as

well as outside the home of its US editor.



The Guardian, February 20, 2014





NSA partnered with other countries in spying on US lawyers, possibly

as a way of bypassing US laws protecting attorney-client communications.



New York Times, February 16, 2014





Finally someone is forced to resign from the NSA because of the

Snowden scandal—but only a person who might have accidentally

helped Snowden.



Washington Post, February 13, 2014





The NSA's secret role in the US assassination program.



First Look Media, February 10, 2014





More than 4,000 groups sign up to protest NSA surveillance.



PC World, February 6, 2014





Dept. of Justice admits NSA probably spies on Congress.



National Journal, February 4, 2014





How many criminals have NSA's phone records busted?

Maybe one, according to the Dept. of Justice.



PC World, February 4, 2014





NSA spying may have violated attorney-client privilege.



The Nation, February 4, 2014





Head spy James Clapper says journalists who report on NSA

abuses are accomplices to crime.



The Guardian, January 29, 2014





NSA sweeping up private information from phone apps, including

info on the phone owner’s sexual orientation.



The Guardian, January 27, 2014





More than 50 leading experts in cryptography sign petition asserting

NSA actions "threaten the technological infrastructure of society."



Washington Post, January 24, 2014





Bipartisan government advisory panel says NSA bulk data collection

is illegal and should be halted.



NBC News, January 23, 2014





Top German prosecutor considers NSA investigation.



Der Spiegel, January 20, 2014





NSA collects 200 million text messages per day – sweeping up

"pretty much everything it can find."



The Guardian, January 16, 2014





NSA secret spy court opposes reforms and transparency.



Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2014





NSA uses radio waves to insert secret software on 100,000 computers

— both for surveillance and to launch cyberattacks on enemies.



New York Times, January 14, 2014





NSA won’t say whether it spies on Congress.



CNN, January 4, 2013





Secret court authorizes more phone surveillance even though Federal

judge has ruled it "probably unconstitutional."



Reuters, January 3, 2014





NSA investing $80 million on computer system that will break every kind of

encryption used to secure banking, medical, business and government data.



Washington Post, January 2, 2014





NSA spyware gives agency full access to the iPhone.



CNET, December 31, 2013





NSA can spy on computers even if they aren't connected to

the Internet.



CBS News, December 30, 2013





The NSA intercepts computers mid-shipment and installs spyware

on them.



Der Spiegel, December 29, 2013





NSA division called ANT has burrowed its way into nearly all the

security architecture made by the major players in the industry —

probably without the knowledge of these companies.



Der Spiegel, December 29, 2013





Former CIA boss on NSA review panel wants to expand data collection.



Nation Journal, December 22, 2013





Leading supplier of computer security software had secret deal with

NSA to put security flaws in software tools it sold.



Reuters, December 20, 2013





US journalist with ties to Snowden claims his Berlin apartment was

raided.



RT, December 21, 2013





NSA program stopped no terror attacks, says White House panel.



NBC News, December 20, 2013





New documents reveal massive scope of NSA spying in 60 countries,

targeting regulators, aid organizations and many others with no

connection to terrorist or illegal activities.



Washington Post, December 20, 2013





Lawyer who won NSA ruling claims spy agency put him under

surveillance and hacked his email account.



The Examiner, December 18, 2013





New evidence that NSA head misled in statements about oversight of spy

agency employees.



The Atlantic, December 16, 2013





NSA mass collection of phone data is unconstitutional, federal judge rules.

But the surveillance continues pending government appeal.



CNN, December 16, 2013





By cracking cellphone code, NSA has capacity for decoding private

conversations.



Washington Post, December 13, 2013





NSA Director tells Senate committee he needs everybody’s phone records to

maintain national security.



The Guardian, December 11, 2013





NSA uses Google cookies to determine targets for hacking.



Washington Post, December 10, 2013





NSA snoops online video games.



Time, December 9, 2013





Local police now want access to massive data dumps of cell phone

info comparable to what the NSA routinely acquires.



Washington Post, December 8, 2013





NSA keeps track of most of the world’s cell phones, collecting

billions of records every day.



Washington Post, December 5, 2013





NSA explored ways of spying on citizens and communication systems

of Canada, Australia and New Zealand without the knowledge or

consent of those nations.



The Guardian, December 4, 2013





NSA spied on foreign leaders at the G20 summit in Canada.



CBC, November 27, 2013





NSA collected details of online sexual activity of radicals — none

connected to terror plots—to find ways of discrediting them.



The Guardian, November 27, 2013





NSA put malware on more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide.



CNET, November 23, 2013





NSA created a secret 4-year strategy plan to increase its powers and

expand its surveillance.



New York Times, November 22, 2013





US and UK struck secret deal allowing NSA to track personal data of

British citizens.



The Guardian, November 20, 2013





NSA shared email and web date with other government agencies, in

violation of court-ordered procedures.



The Guardian, November 19, 2013





NSA refuses to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests from

citizens asking if the agency is spying on them.



USA Today, November 18, 2013





Senate committee passes bill strengthening NSA’s ability to make

warrantless searches.



The Guardian, November 15, 2103





The FBI is helping the NSA spy, but senators don’t want to know about it.



Foreign Policy, November 14, 2013





US software and computer companies see a sudden chill in sales to China

due to NSA concerns.



Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2013





NSA wants to block sales of T-shirt that ridicules government spies.



Voice of America, November 14, 2013





NSA spied on OPEC.



Der Speigel, November 11, 2013





Editor of The Guardian will be interrogated by Parliament over NSA

revelations.



The Guardian, November 9, 2013





NSA codebreaker who protested government surveillance abuses in

2007 was raided by the FBI.



CBS, November 5, 2013





After reviewing Snowden documents, NY Times declares that the “N.S.A.

seems to be listening everywhere in the world, gathering every stray electron.”



New York Times, November 3, 20

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National Security Agency secretly broke into the main communications links

that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.



Washington Post, October 30, 2013





NSA eavesdropped on Vatican phone calls, possibly spying on conclave

that selected Pope Francis.



Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2013





White House signed off on spying of foreign leaders, according to

intelligence agency officials.



Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2013





Administration source claims the President never approved NSA tapping

phones of foreign leaders because “the NSA has so many eavesdropping programs,

it would not have listed all of them for the president.”



CNN, October 28, 2013





NSA recently tracked over 60 million calls in Spain in the space of a month.



Reuters, October 28, 2013





NSA monitored phone calls of 35 world leaders.



The Guardian, October 24, 2013





German government claims it has information that the US may have

monitored cell phone conversations of Chancellor Angela Merkel.



Reuters, October 23, 2013





NSA spent $652 million to implant spyware on tens of millions of computers.



BBC, October 22, 2013





NSA collected more than 70 million French phone records in a single month.



Washington Post, October 21, 2013





NSA hacked Mexican President Felipe Calderon's email account.



Der Spiegel, October 20, 2013





Documents reveal NSA’s extensive involvement in killer drone program.



Washington Post, October 16, 2013





NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live chat

services each day.



Washington Post, October 14, 2013





NSA Director defends the organizations mass surveillance programs, but

believes the spies need to do a better job of explaining them to the public.



New York Times, October 12, 2013





Despite increasing controversy and criticism, secret court renews NSA’s authorization

to continue sweeping phone data.



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f

ice of the Director of Natational Intelligence press release, October 11, 2013





NSA’s computer HQ, bigger than Google’s largest data center, has

experienced 10 electricity meltdowns and repeated loss of equipment

in the last year.



Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2013





NSA targeted Tor network, relied upon by dissidents and activists for

anonymous communication.



The Guardian, October 4, 2013





Newly unsealed document reveal that email provider used by Edward

Snowden ordered to hand over encryption codes for Snowden’s messages

(and those of all 400,000 other users) or pay $5,000 per day fine.



Wired, October 2, 2013





NSA chief admits misleading the public with figures on terror plots foiled

by spying.



Washington Times, October 2, 2013





In 2010 and 2011 the NSA conducted a secret test of a program to collect

bulk data about the cellphone locations of Americans.



New York Times, October 2, 2013





Privacy activist who initiated protest letter to NSA refused entry to the US

—and officials refuse to tell him why.



The Guardian, October 1, 2013





NSA ‘Marina’ project tracks users browser activity and contact info for the

last year, and can be used to create lifestyle profiles of millions of people —

including US citizens who aren't suspects.



The Guardian, September 30, 2013





CEO imprisoned after he wouldn't spy for NSA wasn't allowed to mention

this during his trial, or to present evidence that his prosecution may have

been in retaliation for his refusal.



Washington Post, September 30, 2013





Since 2010, the NSA has tracked the social network connections of US

citizens.



New York Times, September 28, 2013

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NSA employee made unauthorized intercepts of the phone calls of

numerous women over a period of six years without it being detected.



The Guardian, September 27, 2013





Director of NSA tells the Senate Intelligence Committee that there is no

legal limit to how much phone date the government can collect.



Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2013





Senator Feinstein admits NSA is collecting Internet data upstream through

secret agreements with telco companies — in direct contradiction to NSA

public statements.



C-Span, September 26, 2013





Newly released documents show the NSA spied on Muhammad Ali, Martin

Luther King, Frank Church, Howard Baker and others.



The Guardian, September 26, 2013





NSA spy center in Utah has an estimated data capacity of 5 zettabytes —

the equivalent of 1.25 trillion DVDs.



NPR, September 23, 2013





NSA gathers 13.5 billion pieces of information on India over the course of

just 30 days.



The Hindu, September 23, 2013





NSA pays around $300 million dollars to AT&T, Verizon and other

telecom companies in exchange for access to phone calls.



Forbes, September 23, 2013





Secret court that authorized NSA spying contradicted the US Supreme

Court on constitutional rights

.



The Guardian, September 22, 2013





Justice Department internal ethics watchdog never probed judges’ concerns

about NSA surveillance.



USA Today, September 19, 2013





Department of Justice tried to stop USA Today from running the above

story.



Cryptome.org, September 19, 2013





USA telecommunications companies have never challenged NSA demands

to hand over bulk metadata.



Wired. September 17, 2103





NSA monitors banks and credit card transactions -- sometimes in apparent

violation of national laws and global regulations.



Der Spiegel, September 16, 2013





NSA spent taxpayer dollars to build a war room modeled to look like the

USS Enterprise from Star Trek.



PBS, September 13, 2013





NSA disguised itself as Google to spy.



CNET, September 12, 2013





NSA shares raw intelligence, including private information of American

citizens with Israel. Secret deal places no limits on how Israel uses this data.



The Guardian, September 11, 2013





Yahoo CEO announces that she would face prison if she told the truth

about her company’s participation in NSA spying.



The Gua

r

dian, September 11, 2013





NSA violated laws on phone spying for years and misled the secret court

that oversaw its operations.



Bloomberg News, September 11, 2013





NSA violations led judge to consider viability of surveillance program.



The Guardian, September 10, 2013





NSA used its influence to undermine vital web security standards.



Boing Boing, September 8, 2013





NSA can access private data on iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices.



Washington Post, September 8, 2013





The NSA invested billions of dollars in a program code-named Bullrun to

hack the encryption that protects banking data, medical records, etc.



New York Times September 5, 2013





NSA hacks “tens of thousands” of private computers every year.



Wired, September 4, 2013





NSA spied on private emails of the Presidents of Brazil and Mexico.



C

BS

News, September 2, 2013





NSA spied on news broadcaster Al Jazeera.



Der Spiegel, August 31, 2013





NSA believes it has the right to turn any private business into mass

surveillance operation.



USA Today, August 27, 2013





NSA bugged the United Nations.



The Atlantic, August 25, 2013





NSA employees used surveillance technology to spy on their lovers.



Washington Post, August 24, 2103





NSA paid millions to Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other companies to

fund their help in surveillance.



The Guardian, August 22, 2013





NSA program traced more than email metadata, but also included

online communications—covering 75% of all web traffic.



Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2013





NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year.



Washington Post, August 15, 2013





Members of Congress denied acces to basic information about the NSA.



The Guardian, August 4, 2013





NSA tool collects “nearly everything a user does on the internet”



The Guardian, July 31, 2013





Low-level NSA analysts could access information on private citizens with

little or no supervision or court oversight.



ABC News, July 28, 2013





Microsoft gave NSA tools to unlock Outlook encryption even before

official launch.



The Guardian, July 12, 2013





NSA head James Clapper lied to Congress under oath.



Washington Post, June 30, 2013





Misleading NSA fact sheet on surveillance program pulled from

web after senators’ criticism.



Washington Post, June 25, 2013





Secret court has authorized broad orders allowing NSA to use information

"inadvertently" collected from US citizens.



The Guardian, June 20, 2013





NSA swaps data with thousands of firms.



Bloomberg, June 14, 2013





NSA program code-named Boundless Informant gathered 3 billion pieces

of intelligence in a single 30-day period.



The Guardian, June 11, 2013





Secret court authorizes 99.9% of surveillance requests from the NSA.



Mother Jones, June 10, 2013





NSA’s new Utah spy center will cover 1.5 million square feet and use

enough electricity to power 65,000 homes.



NPR, June 10, 2013





AT&T, Sprint also provide user information to the NSA.



Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2013





NSA Prism program taps into user data of Apple, Google, Facebook

and others.



The Guardian June 6, 2013





NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily.

