Thursday, June 6, 2013

U.S. Says It Gathers Online Data Abroad

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/nsa-verizon-calls.html?hp&_r=0

The federal government has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas for nearly six years from the nation’s largest Internet companies like Google, Facebook and, most recently, Apple, in search of national security threats, the director of national intelligence confirmed Thursday night.