NSA harvested around 200m text messages a day

NSA ‘ harvested around 200m text messages a day’
The US National Security Agency has been gathering nearly 200 million text messages a day from around the world, gathering data on people’s travel plans, contacts and credit card transactions, according to the Guardian newspaper. Code-named “Dishfire,” the NSA programme collects “pretty much everything it can,” the Guardian said, citing a joint investigation with Channel 4 News based on material from fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.