The NSA files stands for the National Security Agency Files.
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed to several media outlets a large number of top secret NSA documents.
By leaking these documents, we have found out about the large programme the NSA have launched which lets them look at the publics personal files on their phones, laptops, computers etc.
“You don’t need to be talking to a terror suspect to have your communications data analysed by the NSA. The agency is allowed to travel “three hops” from its targets — who could be people who talk to people who talk to people who talk to you” – The Guardian.
“The Library of Congress, one of the biggest libraries in the world, gathers 5 terabytes a month. The NSA sucks up much, much more.” – The Guardian
The amount of data you are sharing;
“In a statement defending its surveillance programs, the NSA said: “What NSA does is collect the communications of targets of foreign intelligence value, irrespective of the provider that carries them. US service provider communications make use of the same information super highways as a variety of other commercial service providers. NSA must understand and take that into account in order to eliminate information that is not related to foreign intelligence. “NSA works with a number of partners and allies in meeting its foreign-intelligence mission goals, and in every case those operations comply with US law and with the applicable laws under which those partners and allies operate.” – The Guardian
Early in October, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate intelligence committee, wrote in USA Today: “The call-records program is not surveillance. It does not collect the content of any communication, nor do the records include names or locations. The NSA only collects the type of information found on a telephone bill: phone numbers of calls placed and received, the time of the calls and duration.”
But privacy activists critical of the NSA surveillance program vehemently disagree, arguing not only that the collection is based on a legal interpretation that goes way beyond what Congress allowed, but also that metadata includes personal information, which can build a more detailed profile even than listening into content.
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