2015-11-19 NSA: Computerized data-mining, or ‘sheer luck’?

2015-11-19 NSA: Computerized data-mining, or ‘sheer luck’?
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Or is the system in place simply to monitor those who are disfavoured by the regime?

Leaked NSA doc reveals ‘sheer luck’ needed to find useful info in sea of surveillance data

The NSA didn’t know it was already sitting on a “goldmine” of data on one of its targets until one of its analysts discovered it by “sheer luck,” according to an…

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