The latest Prism revelations, published by The Washington Post, reveal that the NSA collects information about web users’ contact lists as online services transmit data when users log on, write messages or synchronise their contact details between desktop and mobile devices.
Internal projections by the NSA estimate that it collects 500,000 contact lists every single day – amounting to tens of millions a year – exposing not only email addresses, but full names, telephone numbers and even home addresses of users who’ve entered that information into their online address books. Cloud based email accounts have also sometimes been known to display the first few lines of email messages.
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