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Bahamas Tribune
October 16, 2017
#According to the leaked documents, the NSA was using a system called SOMALGET to collect and store cell phone data, and had been “secretly intercepting, recording and archiving” the audio of every cell phone conversation in the Bahamas and storing these calls for up to 30 days. #Firstlook.org alsoÃâà...
Cloudwards
March 29, 2017
The NSA is intercepting, recording and storing all calls made in the Bahamas under a program called SOMALGET, a top-secret program that is implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian government. A report by The Intercept showed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement AdministrationÃâà...
Pirate Times
February 21, 2017
The program is called SOMALGET, which is part of a broader surveillance program called MYSTIC. The broader surveillance program, MYSTIC, collects phone call metadata from several countries including Mexico, Kenya, and the Phillipines. General Dynamics had an 8 year contract valued at $51 millionÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 7, 2016
Within two years, SOMALGET would achieve its goal of 100 percent surveillance in the Bahamas — all without legal warrants. This included spying on the cell phones of some 6 million U.S. citizens who visit or reside in the country each year; notable celebrities with homes there are Bill Gates, John TravoltaÃâà...
Bahamas Tribune
April 2, 2015
#According to the leaked documents, the NSA was using a system called SOMALGET to collect and store cell phone data for up to 30 days. #Firstlook.org also posted claims that the NSA used a programme called MYSTIC to carry out phone snooping. The codename used for the Bahamas in the documentsÃâà...
RT
August 2, 2014
... saying that the US has “opened a back door to the country's cellular telephone network enabling it to covertly record and store the full take audio of every mobile phone call made to, from and within Bahamas.” “According to Snowden, the US surveillance is part of the top secret system called SOMALGET,”Ãâà...
RT
July 9, 2014
The journalists said that the NSA uses the SOMALGET program to collect conversations of countless residents and tourists in the Caribbean state and allegedly stores them for 30 days. Classified documentation on the previously undisclosed dragnet system was allegedly taken from the bulk of data copiedÃâà...
RT
May 24, 2014
SOMALGET is part of a broader NSA program called MYSTIC, which the the NSA is using to gather metadata – including the numbers dialed and the time and duration of the calls – from phone calls in the Bahamas, Mexico, Kenya and the Philippines. SOMALGET by its nature is far more controversial,Ãâà...
Access
May 22, 2014
According to a report published Monday by The Intercept, an NSA program called SOMALGET enables the NSA to collect and store the content of billions of phone calls. A 2012 NSA memo describes SOMALGET as “a family of collection systems . . . deployed against entire networks” in order to collect bothÃâà...
The Standard Digital News
May 21, 2014
“All told, the NSA is using Mystic to gather personal data on mobile calls placed in countries with a combined population of more than 250 million people,” The Intercept reported yesterday. Mystic listens in on mobile networks for information that reveals the time, source, and destination of calls. Somalget is aÃâà...
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