Sources: NSA Sucks in Data From 50 Companies (Can track people in 'near-real time')

The Week ^ | Thursday, June 6, 2013 | Marc Ambinder

[kristinn]

Analysts at the National Security Agency can now secretly access real-time user data provided by as many as 50 American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers, two government officials familiar with the arrangements said.

Several of the companies have provided records continuously since 2006, while others have given the agency sporadic access, these officials said. These officials disclosed the number of participating companies in order to provide context for a series of disclosures about the NSA's domestic collection policies. The officials, contacted independently, repeatedly said that "domestic collection" does not mean that the target is based in the U.S. or is a U.S. citizen; rather, it refers only to the origin of the data.

The Wall Street Journal reported today that U.S. credit card companies had also provided customer information. The officials would not disclose the names of the companies because, they said, doing so would provide U.S. enemies with a list of companies to avoid. They declined to confirm the list of participants in an internet monitoring program revealed by the Washington Post and the Guardian, but both confirmed that the program existed.

"The idea is to create a mosaic. We get a tip. We vet it. Then we mine the data for intelligence," one of the officials said.

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From the different types of data, including their credit card purchases, the locations they sign in to the internet from, and even local police arrest logs, the NSA can track people it considers terrorism or espionage suspects in near-real time. An internet geo-location cell is on constant standby to help analysts determine where a subject logs in from.

[Tau Food]

If you have a phone, they can locate you and you know that above you are the ever-present drones.

Recommendation: At night, you should never sleep in the same building with your phone and you should never sleep in the same building on consecutive nights. It's not always convenient, but it is workable.

[txhurl]

I’d like my soul to soar, as well.

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Americans who are not subject to SRM Alinskying have triangulated both thighness and zero. Enough was finally enough.

At risk of being soupy, our White Knights rode in today and avenged us.

I don’t KNOW this. I just FEEL it.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

ME put the pipe down?:

“Basic Cloward Piven...overwhelm the system. Nothing unique here. Just the strategy in full effect.

People just refuse to accept the evidence before them and call it tinfoil. Which is why it works.”

LOL

[RayChuang88]

I think the NSA has been snooping on ALL forms of communications at least since the 1960's using a wide range of technologies. Indeed, they probably know anything that travels over airwaves and landlines (both "copper" wire and fiber optic) at least since the 1980's.

[JoeProBono]

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>Americans who are not subject to SRM Alinskying have triangulated both thighness and zero. Enough was finally enough.<<

YES> You nailed it!

Reality kicked in.

[Norm Lenhart]

So refute it with fact instead of making a fool of yourself.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

The burden of proof is on you, genius. You’re the one making the crackpot assertions. ha

[Norm Lenhart]

As usual, you cannot. Just more posturing.

[opentalk]

“beyond Orwellian”—though it’s no small irony that “1984” was published 64 years ago today.

[txhurl]

Are you so busy navel-gazing that you missed the NEW YORK TIMES abandoned poshitus today!?

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Prove there are no little purple dinosaurs living inside the moon.

See how it works? You can’t.

Now run along, you are wasting your time and mine. lol

[seowulf]

Remember this one?

Remember the FBI's "Carnivore" program?

They change the name from time to time when the natives get restless, but the program goes on.

[EternalVigilance]

I think your take on the the character and likely actions of patriotic Americans in your post #50 is spot on. And also concerning the overreach of the tyrants.

[txhurl]

REJOICE!

[Norm Lenhart]

I read the article. Your point is what? Are you seriously trying to say Obama has not attempted to overwhelm our system of govt? What the NUT has to say matters not a whit. Glad they did, but nothing we have not said here since day 1.

[Norm Lenhart]

Just like a lib.

[austinaero]

Back to cash only for me

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

LOL

[austinaero]

“What better way to get us to stop communicating than by telling us “they” hear everything?

Maybe they do. But I smell psy-ops. “

Even if they don’t they have the power to plant ‘eveidence’ wherever they want....I refuse to live in abject fear of this evil doers. The other silent party that I want to see have some comeuppance is the MEDIA!!!!