Personal Security » Email http://thepersonalsecurity.com In A World That Is Going Crazy There Is Nothing Quite Like A Little Personal Security Thu, 17 May 2012 18:08:33 +0000 en hourly 1 Pinwhale: The U.S. Government Database That Reads Your Email http://thepersonalsecurity.com/archives/pinwhale-the-u-s-government-database-that-reads-your-email http://thepersonalsecurity.com/archives/pinwhale-the-u-s-government-database-that-reads-your-email#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:03:33 +0000 Admin http://thepersonalsecurity.com/?p=47 typeNSAU.S. intelligence agencies are being accused of deliberately spying on the emails of American citizens, including those of former president Bill Clinton.  Details are now emerging about a colossal "big brother" database system that scans millions of American email messages.  The truth is that if we all knew the level to which our privacy is being violated by the government most of us would be absolutely horrified.  The database system is know by the code name Pinwale, and it is utilized by the National Security Agency to intercept and examine massive amounts of email that pass through U.S. telecommunications networks.

The NSA has officially confirmed that Pinwale exists, although they are refusing to talk about the latest allegations or about how the database works.

Supporting these latest allegations is the whistleblower testimony of a former N.S.A. analyst who claims to have been trained in 2005 for a program in which the NSA routinely intercepted and examined millions of domestic (Read More....)

]]> typeNSAU.S. intelligence agencies are being accused of deliberately spying on the emails of American citizens, including those of former president Bill Clinton.  Details are now emerging about a colossal "big brother" database system that scans millions of American email messages.  The truth is that if we all knew the level to which our privacy is being violated by the government most of us would be absolutely horrified.  The database system is know by the code name Pinwale, and it is utilized by the National Security Agency to intercept and examine massive amounts of email that pass through U.S. telecommunications networks.

The NSA has officially confirmed that Pinwale exists, although they are refusing to talk about the latest allegations or about how the database works.

Supporting these latest allegations is the whistleblower testimony of a former N.S.A. analyst who claims to have been trained in 2005 for a program in which the NSA routinely intercepted and examined millions of domestic (Read More....)

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