Screw-ups big and small lead to citizens' info getting sucked into NSA databases.
A report published Thursday evening in The Washington Post
highlights top-secret documents that show the National Security Agency
(NSA) collects unauthorized surveillance on Americans thousands of times
per year.
The documents are a May 2012 audit that the NSA performed on its
operations. Most of the privacy violations were unintended and resulted
from things like typographical errors by analysts and programming
errors. Some were much more serious, including one that involved
unauthorized use of data on more than 3,000 US citizens. In that
incident from February 2012, thousands of files containing telephone
records were retained despite the fact that the NSA was ordered to
destroy them by a surveillance court.
Overall, the audit found 2,776 "incidents" in which the NSA broke its
own privacy rules while collecting information. The report breaks out
data about the first quarter of 2012 in which 195 violations occurred.
For the rest of the story: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/newly-published-leaks-show-nsas-thousands-of-privacy-violations/
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