The National Security Service (NSA) of the US has the legal power to spy on almost every foreign country in the world, except for its four closest allies, according to a highly secret FISA document.
The document comes from the former Secret Service systems analyst services, Edward Snowden, and was published by the newspaper The Washington Post after four months of research into NSA data. As noted in the confidential document, the service uses the paragraph 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, to have the spy program PRISM her permission συλλογής δεδομένων των χρηστών αμερικάνικων εταιρειών, όπως το Facebook, το Google, και τη Microsoft.
According to the newspaper, nine out of ten digital account holders "are not identified targets but are caught in the net" of the service.
The news is no longer a surprise. There has never been any doubt that the NSA is a service dedicated to gathering information from around the world. Nor does it look like much in many places: According to information from Edward Snowden, the NSA has the green light to spy on 193 countries. However, FISA explicitly prohibits espionage of its four "Five Eyes" allies as well as "foreign national factions" such as Palestine, Turkish Cyprus and major international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank.
The Five Eyes partnership was established after the end of World War II. Under the protocol, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand agreed to exchange information and not to spy on each other.
