Snowden Docs Reveal NSA's 'Google for Voice' Technology Can Transcribe Any Phone Call RT.com
go to original May 6, 2015

Snowden Docs: NSA Technology Lets Gov’t Generate Transcripts of Private Phone Calls (Democracy Now!)

Documents from the trove of Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor, shine a light on the US government’s use of sophisticated computer programs to monitor, record, transcribe and analyze all sorts of speech.

The NSA has for over a decade routinely increased the capabilities of speech recognition software, according to a report published this week in The Intercept, and for years has relied on systems alleged to give investigators the ability to scan millions of recorded conversations and query keywords for specific content, including even those in languages unfamiliar to analysts.

Snowden documents show that programs used by the NSA “automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored,” the Intercept reported Tuesday.

Read the rest at RT.com

Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!