The NSA Spied on Nearly 90,000 "Targets" Last Year, According to New Report

A new report reveals that the NSA

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The NSA is alive and well, if you've been wondering.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report analyzing the NSA's use of the PRISM program in 2013, and it turns out that the agency used their powers to spy on 89,138 targets; with "targets" being comprised of groups, individual people, and foreign powers. In all, the NSA only needed one order from a federal surveillance court to do the snooping. "In June 2013, President Obama directed the Intelligence Community to declassify and make public as much information as possible about certain sensitive U.S. Government surveillance programs while protecting sensitive classified intelligence and national security information," the report says.

The data was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Tumblr of all places, and you can check the rest of the report here.

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