India was intensely targeted by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the number one target of spying among the BRIC group of emerging nations like Brazil, Russia and China, a new report shows.
According to top-secret documents provided to The Hindu by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, billions of pieces of information were collected from its telephone and internet networks just in 30 days.
The American spy agency carried out intelligence gathering activities in India using at least two major programs, The Hindu report said.
The first method was Boundless Informant, a data-mining system which keeps track of how many calls and emails are collected by the security agency; and the second one is PRISM, a program which intercepts and collects actual content from the networks.
The high volume of metadata taken from India - 6.3 billion in March of 2013 - means that the US agency collected information on millions of calls, messages and emails every day within India, or between India and a foreign country. Full story...
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According to top-secret documents provided to The Hindu by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, billions of pieces of information were collected from its telephone and internet networks just in 30 days.
The American spy agency carried out intelligence gathering activities in India using at least two major programs, The Hindu report said.
The first method was Boundless Informant, a data-mining system which keeps track of how many calls and emails are collected by the security agency; and the second one is PRISM, a program which intercepts and collects actual content from the networks.
The high volume of metadata taken from India - 6.3 billion in March of 2013 - means that the US agency collected information on millions of calls, messages and emails every day within India, or between India and a foreign country. Full story...
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