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sexta-feira, maio 12, 2006

"We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans"

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USA Today claims that after 9/11, the National Security Agency (NSA) asked all the major phone companies for access to their records of all calls.

An anonymous source told the paper the agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders.

The spy agency was not listening to or recording the content of the calls, but tracking the phone numbers and call duration to try to analyse patterns for potential terrorist activity.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Spy charges pit security against privacy

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