Germany’s Der Spiegel newspaper – increasingly joining the NSA revelations train – reports today
that the intelligence agency is interested in international credit card
transactions and may have found a way to monitor payments processed by
companies including Visa. Spiegel alleges it has even set up its own
financial database to track money flows.
The paper says that in 2011, the NSA possessed 180 million records
via its “Follow the Money”...
