The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
Found on The Intercept on Tuesday, 26 August 2014
The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies.
ICREACH contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The documents suggest these results can be used reveal the “social network” of the person of interest—in other words, those that they communicate with, such as friends, family, and other associates.
Every few months new documents underline how much the system has gone out of control, yet all those in charge ignore all the concerns and try to sugarcoat it.