The NSA Is Using Private Sector Data

Collection for Public Sector Purposes,

Impacting Big Data and Commerce

Research PREVIEW for

Stratecast Confidential: The Impact of

the NSA on the Big Data Market—

and Global Communications

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Sample of Key Highlights

• The NSA has access to detailed information about much of the phone and

electronic communication in the U.S, most U.S. credit card transactions, and

even user/usage data from popular mobile phone apps, such as Angry Birds

• The NSA is gaining access through data collection “agreements,” electronic

software and system back doors, and its own ability to “troll” communication

highways, collecting data at will

• The NSA claims to simply be interested in collecting metadata—”data about

the data”--yet the NSA is hard at work on technologies that protect CONTENT,

cracking the code of:

- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which keeps online communications and transactions (content)

hidden from prying eyes.

- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), an encryption algorithm for securing sensitive but

unclassified material by U.S. government agencies

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Sample of Key Highlights

• The NSA is far from the only entity that appears to be trampling on personal

privacy in pursuit of information it believes it needs; the private sector is also

obtaining personal user data through questionable means

• Loss of privacy will degrade the quality of life--and since electronic

communications are the lifeblood of commerce, it may have chilling effect on

the U.S. economy

• Current developments offer hope of a solution:

-Harvard University: Differential Privacy – leveraging common privacy issues across

sectors to develop software-driven Big Data solutions

- The U.S. Senate is crafting legislation to limit NSA’s data collection mandate

* Update July 28, 2014: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduces bill*

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