The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released a document today giving some crucial insights into the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance operations in 2013. The transparency report, published via_Tumblr, lists the number of National Security Letters, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders, and use of the FISA Business Records provision over the 12-month period. The report lists 1,767 FISA orders, 178 applications for business records – of which 423 “selectors” were queried under the NSA’s telephony metadata program – and 19,212 National Security Letters. Richard Salgado, Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google, said the...

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