<p>India has emerged as the fifth most tracked country by the US intelligence which used a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet data.<br /><br />Britain's Guardian newspaper claims to have acquired top secret documents about US' National Security Agency's (NSA) data-mining tool, called Boundless Informant.<br /><br />The tool details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.</p>.<p>A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map", shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide, the daily reported.</p>.<p>It showed that Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14 billion reports in that period, followed by 13.5 billion from Pakistan.<br /><br />Jordan, one of America's closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3billion.</p>.<p>"The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country," an NSA factsheet about the Boundless Informant program reads.</p>.<p>The heat map gives each nation a colour code based on how extensively it is subjected to NSA surveillance.</p>.<p>The colour scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance). <br /><br />The disclosure of the internal Boundless Informant system comes amid a struggle between the NSA and its overseers in the American Senate over whether it can track the intelligence it collects on American communications.</p>.<p>The NSA's position is that it is not technologically feasible to do so.</p>.<p>The revelations form part of a global whistle-blowing operation that has claimed that innocent citizens around the world, including the UK, may have been subjected to unauthorised internet monitoring via the NSA.<br /><br />A 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, Edward Snowden, was revealed as the whistleblower behind one of the most significant leaks in US political history.</p>.<p>The 'Guardian', after several days of interviews, revealed his identity at his own request.<br />From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity.<br /><br />"I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said.</p>
<p>India has emerged as the fifth most tracked country by the US intelligence which used a secret data-mining programme to monitor worldwide internet data.<br /><br />Britain's Guardian newspaper claims to have acquired top secret documents about US' National Security Agency's (NSA) data-mining tool, called Boundless Informant.<br /><br />The tool details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.</p>.<p>A snapshot of the Boundless Informant data, contained in a top secret NSA "global heat map", shows that in March 2013 the agency collected 97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide, the daily reported.</p>.<p>It showed that Iran was the country where the largest amount of intelligence was gathered, with more than 14 billion reports in that period, followed by 13.5 billion from Pakistan.<br /><br />Jordan, one of America's closest Arab allies, came third with 12.7 billion, Egypt fourth with 7.6 billion and India fifth with 6.3billion.</p>.<p>"The tool allows users to select a country on a map and view the metadata volume and select details about the collections against that country," an NSA factsheet about the Boundless Informant program reads.</p>.<p>The heat map gives each nation a colour code based on how extensively it is subjected to NSA surveillance.</p>.<p>The colour scheme ranges from green (least subjected to surveillance) through yellow and orange to red (most surveillance). <br /><br />The disclosure of the internal Boundless Informant system comes amid a struggle between the NSA and its overseers in the American Senate over whether it can track the intelligence it collects on American communications.</p>.<p>The NSA's position is that it is not technologically feasible to do so.</p>.<p>The revelations form part of a global whistle-blowing operation that has claimed that innocent citizens around the world, including the UK, may have been subjected to unauthorised internet monitoring via the NSA.<br /><br />A 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA, Edward Snowden, was revealed as the whistleblower behind one of the most significant leaks in US political history.</p>.<p>The 'Guardian', after several days of interviews, revealed his identity at his own request.<br />From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity.<br /><br />"I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he said.</p>