The agency that brought you warrantless mass spying exploits its huge database to create detailed graphs of Americans’ social connections, identifying their associates, locations, traveling companions and other personal information, newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials reveal. The National Security Agency began allowing analysis of phone calls and email logs in November 2010 for the purpose of examining Americans’ networks of associations for intelligence purposes, documents provided by whistle-blower Edward Snowden show. —Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Laura Poitras and James Risen at The New York Times: The policy shift was intended to help the agency “discover and track” connections between intelligence targets overseas and people in the United States, according to an N.S.A.
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