NSA Collects 82,000 Contacts Daily From Facebook

topgold/flickr Washington Post - The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

... During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million a year. Some people the government is watching right now http://instagram.com/p/fgUUV6CY61/ http://instagram.com/p/fghex2ja9V/ https://twitter.com/Dzaniiii_xO/status/390279012146503681 https://twitter.com/LeonardoDaBRIci/status/390295258845949952 https://twitter.com/lesbolife/status/390250054641909760