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		notdrunkatall on June 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americ... According to Binney, the NSA's been mining data illegally since shortly before 9/11.

DanBC on June 6, 2013 [–]

According to the EU parliament ECHELON was going on for a while. Monitoring of citizen phone calls was happening since at least the '90s. And that was the content of the calls, not just the addressing data.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON)

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