Government government metadata monitoring, which appears to be less concerned with public opinion, is actually giving more information to secret services ( NSA ) from the phone calls themselves, or e-mails, Edward Snowden and Glenn report Greenwald.
Snowden and the journalist briefed the world at a conference organized by Amnesty International, says Reuters.
Greenwald joined the event from Brazil while Snowden from Russia, where he has been offering asylum since last summer.
The twin reported that NSA meta-data tracking is more indistinguishable than traditional phone tapping, while stressing the importance of press freedom, which is not afraid to challenge the government for its activities.
The telephone metadata περιλαμβάνουν τον αριθμό τηλεφώνου, τους χρόνους και τη διάρκεια κλήσης, καθώς και τα δεδομένα της θέσης, ενώ τα μεταδεδομένα των emails include much more detail. Metadata, by definition, does not include the content of calls or emails, and this leads people to believe that their collection by services is harmless.
Studies have shown over the past few months that things are not as innocent as the US government wants to make them out to be. Metadata is analyzed and this gives the NSA a lot of personal data, such as who is the closest relative of the person being monitored, who are their friends, who talks to whom, what religion they believe in, where they work, when they work, when they sleep, what their habits are during the day and night.
"Metadata allows the accurate recording of all private activities in the lives of all of us. "They show our ties, our political beliefs and our real activities," Snowden said during his speech.
Although Barack Obama has announced a series of measures that are supposed to be the reforms of the NSA program, it seems that the collection of metadata will continue to exist. The new measures are hardly touching key issues, and as all it seems to come firefighting to reassure public opinion. .
Amnesty International, which organized the conference, has launched a campaign against the US government to end the mass surveillance actions in their entirety, including metadata collection programs.
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