Tuesday, October 15, 2013

NSA reportedly collecting millions of personal online contact lists worldwide

This article on FoxNews.com about the information that the NSA is collecting is definitely a fact claim. The article includes a lot of facts about the subject.  Although there isn't an outright argument trying to persuade people one way or another, there is a slight hint toward advocacy against the NSA's methods of receiving the population's online information.
The article boosts it's credibility by adding a link to an article by the Washington Post.  The article includes summaries of the information provided by the Washington Post, as well as a quote from the NSA.  At the bottom of this article, it says "The Associated Press contributed to this report".  This statement, along with the quotes and summaries adds credibility because it shows that Fox News is not taking credit for all of the information they are providing to us.
This article is basically telling us that the NSA is using loopholes in order to get private information about people from the Internet, such as collecting the data from different locations throughout the world, seeing how that practice is currently illegal in the United States. The article also gives a quote from the NSA claiming that they aren't interested in the private information of everyone, they are just using the information to look for connections and patterns of contact between people in order to try to detect criminal activities or terrorist attacks.  The article doesn't specifically give you their own stance on the NSA's practices, they are more just providing the information that they feel that the general population should know.
To read the exact statistics and quotes, you can read the whole article at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/14/nsa-reportedly-collecting-millions-personal-online-contact-lists-worldwide/

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