Wired gives the NSA a Gothic treatment with their 12 True Tales of Creepy NSA Cyberstalking.
In 2005, a military member used his first day of access to run six e-mail addresses belonging to an ex-girlfriend.
Nice use of defensive creepiness here:
In 2011, another civilian NSA employee abroad “tasked” the telephone number of her boyfriend and other foreign nationals. When she was asked about it, she claimed it was her practice to query the phone numbers of people she met socially to make sure she wasn’t talking to “shady characters.” (Because you wouldn’t want that.)
In case you were wondering, "[s]ome of the abuses were referred to the Department of Justice, but none resulted in prosecution."
(thanks to Todd Bryant; image via Don Hankins)
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