Nuclear Agency’s Secret Deal Exposes Vast Government Digital Data Grab

A recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has to do with yet another instance of the US government buying surveillance tools from third parties.

But this one - called Augury - is a little different, as it is used by the country's agency in charge of "nuclear deterrence" (the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

At the same time, the makers of the tool in question claim that it has access to over 90 percent of internet data in the world.

With this, the DTRA joins the US Army, the FBI, the Navy's civilian NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service), the IRS, the Cyber Command, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.

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