{"id":9606,"date":"2013-10-16T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:28:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:28:57","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9606","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: NSA gathering contact lists from e-mails, chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally\/2013\/10\/14\/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html\">NSA gathering contact lists from e-mails, chats<\/a> by Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The agency harvests millions of address books from e-mail and chat accounts, many of them belonging to Americans, according to officials and documents provided by Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and \u201cbuddy lists\u201d from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online services often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information stored on remote servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/page\/world\/the-nsas-overcollection-problem\/517\/\">The NSA&#8217;s problem? Too much data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9606\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}