According to The Washington Post: Over 550,000 miles of submarine fiber optic cable wrap around the world to deliver emails , Web pages, other electronic communications and telephone calls from one continent to another at the speed of light. Since the cables reach land, they connect? the landing stations that route voice, data and Internet traffic to national networks or transmit the signal to another submarine network which carries data on their international destination.
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As people chat around the world, browse and post pictures through online services, most of the information flow to the technological scope of the supervision of the United States. Although the laws, rules of procedure and internal policies limit how such information may be collected and used, data billions of devices around the world pass through the Internet choke points that States STATES and its allies are capable of supervision .
This large-scale monitoring of fiber networks is parallel to PRISM NSA that allows analysts to access data from nine major Internet companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Apple, according to PowerPoint slides classified NSA. (The companies said the collection is legal and limited.)
When the NSA collects communications, a target abroad foreigner who speaks or e-mailing with an American, the e- mail or phone call American is considered "incidental" collected. It is considered "inadvertently" collected if the target is proven to be an American, according to rules and people familiar with the programs. The extent of the accidental and involuntary collection were not disclosed, leading some lawmakers to require disclosure of estimates of the number of Americans communications have been collected.
By using software that analyzes traffic and "sniffs" the targeted e- mail address, t he company can remove the email traffic automatically to provide the government as several former government officials and industry experts.
" people have to realize that there are many ways for the government to obtain large amounts of e-mail ," said Chris Soghoian, an expert in technology with the American civil Liberties Union
learn more about "agreements with private companies protect US access to data cables for monitoring." - the Washington post
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