US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data | World news | theguardian.com
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The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analyzed and stored by America's National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials, according to documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In the first explicit confirmation that UK citizens have been caught up in US mass surveillance programs, an NSA memo describes how in 2007 an agreement was reached that allowed the agency to "unmask" and hold on to personal data about Britons that had previously been off limits.
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Now we're just waiting for proof that the NSA has dossiers on innocent U.S. citizens.
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