NSA Director Admits Agency Trawls Twitter And Facebook… But Insists They Are NOT Building Personal Files On Americans -- Daily Mail
* The head of the National Security Agency denied on Wednesday that the intelligence service compile's data on Americans' use of social networks
* National Security Agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander told Senate Judiciary Committee that his agency once tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations
* Claims the NSA does not use this technology
The director of the National Security Agency admitted today that the agency collects data from social networks and other private databases to hunt terror suspects but is not using the information to build dossiers, or personal files, on Americans.
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander testified during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday that not all social network searches are authorized by a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, but the agency's actions are proper and audited internally.
Alexander called a recent New York Times report on the searches 'inaccurate and wrong.'
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