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NSA Can Tap a Third of World's Telecoms

The US National Security Agency (NSA) now has the legal right to monitor over a third of the world's telecoms traffic. Under new provisions of the Protect America Act 2007 recently signed into legislation, as an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978, the NSA can monitor all traffic originating, passing through or terminating in the US without requiring a court order. Full story...

Posted by Editor at August 10, 2007 01:38 PM