The USA's spy agencies may have been routinely recording text messages sent
by mobile networks, according to the latest documents released by the NSA
whistleblower, Edward Snowden.
It is being claimed that the NSA collected nearly 200 million text messages
per day by trapping into the mobile networks, using the data to track issues
such as locations of the sender, who messages are being sent to and even credit
card details.
A joint investigation between The Guardian and the UK's Channel 4 News is
based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The project, code-named Dishfire is said to collect "pretty much
everything it can", according to documents from the UK's own spy agency,
GCHQ.
They describe tapping into the SMS platform as a "goldmine to
exploit" and was collecting an average of 194 million messages per day
starting back in April 2011.
Dishfire collects not just the contents of the text message, but also the
more useful for the spies, the metadata about the message, such as where it was
sent from, to whom and which networks were involved in processing it.
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