One NSA program, unofficially called 215, collected metadata from U.S. telecommunications companies, revealing the date, time, location, and recipient of phone calls across the United States. The agency also monitored foreign emails through a program called Prism, part of a larger internet collection effort called Upstream; while targeted abroad, the NSA has admitted that U.S. emails were gathered up as part of the program. One of the documents leaked to the Guardian claimed that the NSA’s tools allowed them to see “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.”
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