﻿ NSA 'top secret' spying order affects millions of Americans:
FAQ | ZDNet   Summary: The U.S. government is vacuuming up
millions of Verizon customer records on a daily basis, according
to a leaked "top secret" court order. Here's everything you need
to know.  The National Security Agency's headquarters in Ft.
Meade, Md., in an undated file photo. (Image: NSA)  The Guardian
newspaper revealed exclusively on Wednesday that the U.S.
National Security Agency (NSA) has and continues to vacuum up
millions of Verizon customer details, including information on
phone calls both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other
countries.  Under the order, Verizon is ordered on an "ongoing,
daily basis" to hand the NSA information on all of the call data
in its systems.  On Thursday, ZDNet obtained a copy of a note
sent by Verizon chief counsel Randy Milch to employees. In the
note, he did not confirm or deny the story, but in describing it
as an "alleged" court order, he stressed that the text "forbids
Verizon from rev