The NSA Has Been Creating Maps of American Citizens' Social Networks...

Mail Online ^ | 28 September 2013 | Ryan Gorman

[Windflier]

The NSA has been graphing American’s social networks and plotting them as they do organized crime since at least 2010, according to the latest published Edward Snowden leak.

The highly secretive intelligence agency has been mapping out American citizens’ social connections – identifying associates, determining locations, and logging who they talk to – by taking advantage of loosened rules previously meant to restrict surveillance actions.

As far back as November, 2010, the agency authorized spies to conduct ‘large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness,’ the New York Times revealed Saturday.

Mapped out: THe NSA has been putting together diagrams of people's social networks similar to how the FBI maps out criminal organizations

[Windflier]

On LinkedIn, a networking site for business people, you can see who viewed your profile. I was shocked last month when “US Department of Justice, Criminal Investigation” visited my profile.

Interesting. Definitely a sign that we're now living in a police state.