NSA Tapped Google, Yahoo Data Centers

Documents obtained from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden suggest that the NSA has obtained access to internal communications among major overseas data centers operated by Yahoo and Google. The documents suggest that by copying data traveling between the centers as it passes through undisclosed interception points, the agency is able to gather hundreds of millions of records. At times, the agency has been overwhelmed with data, much of it of little intelligence value, the Washington Post reports.

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