NSA Collects Millions of Text Messages Daily

The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents, The Guardian reports.

The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages including their contacts is revealed in a joint investigation between the Guardian and the UK’s Channel 4 News based on material provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Read all about it at The Guardian.