U.S Spy Agency Monitoring Messages, Emails In India: Report
Bangalore: India is one among the top five countries most widely monitored by the National Security Agency (NSA) a U.S government agency tasked with foreign surveillance claims a Boundless Informant, a U.K newspaper.
In March 2013, NSA recorded 6.3 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks in India placing it fifth on the list of most extensively monitored countries. Iran topped the list with 14 billion pieces of intelligence followed by Pakistan with 13.5 billion, Jordan in the third position with 12.7 billion and Egypt with 7.6 billion in the fourth.
The agency collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide and has developed a powerful tool for recording and analyzing the top-secret documents about the NSA data mining tool, called Boundless Informant. It details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
It is the latest information in the series of revelations that features the top-secret surveillance and data monitoring programs managed by NSA.
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