From Economic Espionage to Smart Phone Snooping, the NSA is Watching

Two separate stories in the last 24 hours—written continents apart by separate teams of international journalists but both based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden—explore the tenacious efforts of the U.S. National Security Agency to keep tabs on the flow of digital information and global capital, from communications networks inside giant companies to the itty-bitty content in individual users’ smartphones.

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The NSA has been working diligently in recent years to hack protections on smart phones, including iPhones, BlackBerry and Android devices, to gain access to users’ data, German paper Der Spiegel revealed Monday, citing documents revealed by Snowden. These developments were fast-paced, to keep up with the smart phone boom, and show that even the most private devices are potential spying targets.

Der Speigel reports:

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Meanwhile, Brazil’s Globo TV revealed that the NSA spied on Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Google’s private networks, and a company that facilitates a majority of the world’s international bank transfer—revelations that expose vast NSA spying on the private communications of large companies.

Bloomberg reports:

As Bloomberg points out, the revelations appear to directly contradict an email sent from an NSA spokesperson to the Washington Post, published August 30, declaring, “The department does ***not*** engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber.”

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