NSA Harvests Personal Contact Lists, Too

InformationWeek: The National Security Agency's massive digital dragnet extends even to intercepted contact lists, culled in part from people's online email address books and instant messaging (IM) "buddy lists." In fact, the agency amasses an estimated 250 million contact lists per year from around the world, collecting a volume of data that at times has strained the agency's technological capabilities.

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