
“The office of the director of national intelligence (ODNI), which oversees the US’s intelligence agencies, suggested the stories, simultaneously published on the front pages of the New York Times and Guardian, were ‘not news’, but nonetheless provided a ‘road map … to our adversaries’. Privacy groups, however, said the NSA’s activities were endangering privacy and putting both US internet users and businesses users at risk. ‘Even as the NSA demands more powers to invade our privacy in the name of cybersecurity, it is making the internet less secure and exposing us to criminal hacking, foreign espionage, and unlawful surveillance,’ said the ACLU’s principal technologist.”
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