Report: NSA Gathers Millions of Email and IM Contact Lists

The NSA may be all over your buddy list — whether or not you actually have any friends there.

According to a new report from The Washington Post, the NSA collects "contact lists" from millions of personal email and instant messaging accounts, including those belonging to Americans.

This is the latest in a series of revelations produced by documents leaked by former defense contractor Edward Snowden.

The leaked top-secret documents show that on an average day, the NSA collects about 500,000 contact lists from companies such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Facebook Read more...