#dishfire

Recent information shows evidence of the DISHFIRE surveillance system. Built in cooperation with GCHQ, the DISHFIRE system collects and archives hundreds of millions of text message every day.

If this isn't a breach of our precious privacy, I don't know what is. 

Reuters, January 16, 2014

WASHINGTON (Reuters)--The U.S. National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday.

Code-named “Dishfire,” the NSA program collects “pretty much everything it can,” the Guardian said, citing a joint investigation with the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material from fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The newspaper said the documents also showed that the British spy agency GCHQ had used the NSA database to search the metadata of “untargeted and unwarranted” communications of people in the United Kingdom.

It added that communications from U.S. phone numbers were removed or “minimized” from the database, while numbers from other countries, including the UK, were kept.

Citing a 2011 NSA presentation subtitled “SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit,” the Guardian said the program collected 194 million text messages a day on average in April that year.

“The NSA has made extensive use of its vast text message database to extract information on people’s travel plans, contact books, financial transactions and more--including of individuals under no suspicion of illegal activity,” the Guardian report said.

EEV: It is highly evident that individuals are benefiting from using the U.S. Governments spy network to gain an unfair advantage in the investment markets.

  The NSA spying is alluding to being used more as a personal tool of enrichment , and less of one…