NSA built 'Google-like' search tool to mine data from 850 billion communications records

Danny Palmer
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Latest Snowden leak reveals how ICREACH is used to give US intelligence agencies access to communications data

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has built a search engine in the style of Google to help employees within the NSA and other intelligence agencies to search for information within its vast dat...

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