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The NSA supposedly created new guidelines surrounding this practice after the Snowden revelations but refuses to say what those guidelines are. The NSA has made the job of hacking security devices easier for itself by coercing many manufacturers to build vulnerabilities into products. These enable the NSA to break into consumer electronics devices and IT systems as it sees fit. The NSA’s hacking unit, Tailored Access Operations, has developed a whole range of hacking exploits. When the NSA finds a security hole in a popular consumer device, it does not fix the security hole, but instead exploits it. Data shared includes emails, messages, and documents. Big Tech passes your data to the NSAįacebook, Google, Apple, and six other leading online services have all gone on record as having given their customers’ data to the NSA, as legally required by the “ PRISM” program. After all, it wouldn’t be the first time that the NSA has straight up lied about its surveillance policies. This has meant that the overall extent of phone records collected by the NSA has gone down-but it’s hard to take their word at face value. The USA FREEDOM Act, passed in 2015, puts the onus on telecommunication providers to hold on to phone records, after which they can be requested by the NSA rather than the spy agency keeping tabs on them directly. It proceeded to delete many of them, citing “technical irregularities” but didn’t specify how many were expunged from servers. In 2018, the NSA acquired data from over 600 million phone calls and text messages. The NSA can still access your phone records Here are eight ways the NSA is still spying on you, right now, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden and further investigation by the press. Its counterparts at the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) are also spying on and hacking targets of interest. government and large portions of Congress.īut it’s not only the NSA spying on its own people. citizens and interests, the NSA monitors every American and the people of many allied countries-all with the backing of the U.S. Although it ostensibly works to protect U.S. The shockwave of the revelations still ripples today. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the NSA collects personal data on every American, as well as many more people worldwide.