March 11, 2008

NSA monitors emails and online transactions

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been involved in something that could go beyond the big brother label in fact this goes well beyond it. So what are they doing that is so bad, after all the US and UK are fully at war with terrorist threat and so we should expect them to be doing something, but maybe we didn’t know how far they would go.

How the NSA searches for threats of terrorism:

Email – Recipient and Sender address, subject, date and time.

Internet – Sites visited and searches made.

Mobile Phone – Numbers incoming or outgoing, length of call and location.

Landline – Numbers incoming or outgoing and length of call.

Financial – Information about bank accounts, transfers and credit card use.

Airline – Information about passengers.

Obviously this work is done by very sophisticated software; this monitors the above for any suspicious patterns. If the software is triggered it is them when the human side comes into play it is when things can get really worrying.

Source [WSJ]