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The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
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. Planning documents for ICREACH, as the search engine is called, cite the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration as key participants.
This story comes via The Intercept.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by HiThere on Friday August 29 2014, @06:40PM
That, while evil, is not a violation of their oath of office. Or, if you consider what they are doing an act of war, treason. There are even those who argue that it is necessary, because "they're doing it too".
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.