Headquarters of the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. Español: Instalaciones generales de la NSA en Fort Meade, Maryland. Русский: Штаб-квартира АНБ, Форт-Мид, Мэриленд, США (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The National Security Agency quietly admitted on Christmas Eve to a decade's worth of privacy violations in accordance with a lawsuit.
In the executive summary accompanying the document dump the NSA stated that 'the vast majority' of incidents were the result of 'unintentional technical or human error' and in 'very few cases' was the agency's intelligence system misused on purpose.
In one particularly egregious abuse of the agency's spyware, however, an analyst inappropriately surveilled her husband's acquaintances.In another an Army sergeant kept tabs on his wife.