Pakistan is the second-highest country on the list of nations spied
on by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), an exclusive
report in The Guardian revealed.
The NSA is in possession of a powerful data mining tool, which it
uses to record and analyse massive amounts of digital data, a key source
of its intelligence.The Guardian reportedly acquired top-secret
documents about the NSA tool, called Boundless Informant, that details
and maps by country the amount of information it collects from telephone
and computer networks.
According to a snapshot of the data for March 2013, the NSA gathered 13.5 billion intelligence reports from Pakistan during the 30-day period. The largest amount of data was collected from Iran, at 14 billion reports. Jordan came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3 billion.
The agency collected 3 billion reports from American computer
networks over the same period.On Friday, US President Barack Obama
mounted a staunch defense Friday of the recently exposed spy agency
surveillance programs, telling Americans “nobody is listening to your
telephone calls.”
Obama though maintained that there was a trade off to be made between national security and people’s privacy, though he said it was right that the exact balance between the two should be publicly debated.
The NSA is in possession of a powerful data mining tool, which it
uses to record and analyse massive amounts of digital data, a key source
of its intelligence.The Guardian reportedly acquired top-secret
documents about the NSA tool, called Boundless Informant, that details
and maps by country the amount of information it collects from telephone
and computer networks.According to a snapshot of the data for March 2013, the NSA gathered 13.5 billion intelligence reports from Pakistan during the 30-day period. The largest amount of data was collected from Iran, at 14 billion reports. Jordan came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3 billion.
The
heat map reveals how much data is being collected from around the
world. Note the ’2007′ date in the image relates to the document from
which the interactive map derives its top secret classification, not to
the map itself.
Obama though maintained that there was a trade off to be made between national security and people’s privacy, though he said it was right that the exact balance between the two should be publicly debated.
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