Amy Goodman
@DemocracyNow·3.2M subscribers·19.4K videos
As Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability To Record & Replay Every Call, Everywhere?
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March 21, 2014
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20:09Now PlayingThe latest disclosures from Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency is recording every single phone call made in an undisclosed foreign country. A surveillance system called MYSTIC stores the billions of phone conversations for up to 30 days. Agents are able to rewind and review any conversation within the previous month using a tool codenamed RETRO. One senior manager for the program compared it to a time machine. We speak to Ashkan Soltani, who cowrote the Washington Post exposé on MYSTIC, and has closely studied the cost of surveillance. He has cowritten a series of other exposés for the Post that revealed how the NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking and how the NSA secretly broke into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world.
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