NSA announces a change in its surveillance activities, it will no longer spy on citizens’ emails, texts, and other Internet communications.
In the past NSA cyber spies were flagging any communication where a foreign surveillance target was mentioned, even when the target wasn’t involved in the conversation.
The NSA reform will involve upstream surveillance collection and not other surveillance activities such as the PRISM program.
“After considerable evaluation of the program and available technology, NSA has decided that its Section 702 foreign intelligence surveillance activities will no longer include any upstream internet communications that are solely “about” a foreign intelligence target.” continue the statement.”Instead, this surveillance will now be limited to only those communications that are directly “to” or “from” a foreign intelligence target. These changes are designed to retain the upstream collection that provides the greatest value to national security while reducing the likelihood that NSA will acquire communications of U.S. persons or others who are not in direct contact with one of the Agency’s foreign intelligence targets.”
Source:https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/58615/intelligence/nsa-statement-surveillance-activities.html
Working as a cyber security solutions architect, Alisa focuses on application and network security. Before joining us she held a cyber security researcher positions within a variety of cyber security start-ups. She also experience in different industry domains like finance, healthcare and consumer products.
