The Daily Dose

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a document today giving some crucial insights into the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance operations in 2013. The transparency report, published via Tumblr, lists the number of National Security Letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders, and use of the FISA Business Records provision over the 12-month period. The report lists 1,767 FISA orders, 178 applications for business records – of which 423 “selectors” were queried under the NSA’s telephony metadata program – and 19,212 National Security Letters. Richard Salgado, Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google, said the…

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