NSA can reportedly record every call made in a foreign country
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Surveillance system has the capability to store recordings of billions of calls for up to 30 days, according to confidential documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The National Security Agency has the capability to record "100 percent" of the telephone calls placed in a foreign country and play them back up to a month later, according to a report Tuesday by The Washington Post.
Known as MYSTIC, the surveillance system dates back to 2009, according to documents supplied to the newspaper by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The program, which wasn't fully operational until 2011, intercepts and records and stores billions of calls for 30 days on a rolling buffer that purges the oldest recordings as new ones arrive, according to one classified summary cited by the newspaper.
The Post said it withheld, at the request of US officials, the identity of the targeted nation and other nations where the program's use was envisioned.
The revelation is just the latest to emerge from a trove of confidential documents leaked to the media by Snowden, detailing the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. Previous revelations showed how the NSA collected metadata associated with phone calls; this program reportedly extends surveillance to the content of conversations.
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"foreign"
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They are only saying foreign because we already knew they could get the domestic ones.
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@Dashrender said:
They are only saying foreign because we already knew they could get the domestic ones.
LOL, true.
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