National Security Agency rullet i 2009 ut et program som tar opp absolutt alle telefonsamtaler i et bestemt land i løpet av en 30-dagers periode.

Det var Washington Post som rapporterte dette sist uke. Post avslørte ikke hvilket land det var snakk om.

The voice interception program is known as MYSTIC and started in 2009, with its «retrospective retrieval» capability, called RETRO, reaching full strength in 2011 against the first target nation, the Post reported.

A classified summary of the system said the collection effort was recording «every single» conversation nationwide in the first target country, storing billions of conversations in a 30-day rolling buffer that clears out the oldest calls as new ones are made, the Post reported.

A senior manager for the program likened it to a time machine that can replay voices from any phone call without the need to identify a person for spying in advance, the newspaper reported.

The Post said that no other disclosed NSA program captures a nation’s telephone network in its entirety.

Det fremgår at det aktuelle landet bare var det første i rekken. I prinsippet kunne man velge andre.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/18/us-usa-security-surveillance-idUSBREA2H1WE20140318