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NSA built search engine to crawl, share data cnet/news/nsa-built-search-engine-to-crawl-share-data/ Not only is the National Security Agency scooping up vast troves of data on the American public, its also sharing that data with other US government agencies. The NSA has granted access across nearly two dozen agencies to data on more than 850 billion records that covers more than 30 different kinds of metadata on phone calls, cell phone locations, faxes, emails, and Internet chats, says a new report in The Intercept. Based on classified documents provided by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the planning documents for the search engine, called ICREACH for Intelligence Community Reach, implicate the participation of the Drug Enforcement Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 06:31:26 +0000

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