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August 16, 2013 10:42 pm GMT

New Snowden Documents Expose Thousands of NSA Privacy Violations

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New top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that the NSA has violated privacy rules on thousands of occasions every year since 2008, contrary to previous claims by various officials.

The main document, published by The Washington Post on Thursday night, is an internal audit dated May 2012 that exposes thousands of infractions that resulted in unauthorized surveillance of American citizens

See also: Edward Snowden: Unencrypted Email Isn't Safe

In a one year period, from April 1, 2011, through March 31, 2012, the NSA's own auditors found 2,776 violations caused by a wide range of errors like typographical mistakes, and even the use of new collection methods that were later ruled unconstitutional by the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Read more...

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