Director of the National Security Agency: Who Is Paul Nakasone?
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/director-of-the-national-security-agency-who-is-paul-nakasone-180516?news=860468
confirmed April 24, 2018
Paul Miki Nakasone, who has served in the Army for more than 30 years, was confirmed April 24, 2018, to be the head of the National Security Agency (NSA). A promotion to four-star general comes with the job. The NSA is responsible for gathering signals intelligence and decoding and coding information. It is the world’s most comprehensive and intrusive spy agency. It stores and analyses the information it collects at the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center in Utah.
This is a partial list of the information the NSA collects about Americans and others, according to the agency’s own web site:
internet searches
websites visited
emails sent and received
social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on
videos watched and/or uploaded online
photos viewed and/or uploaded online
mobile phone GPS-location data
mobile phone apps downloaded
phone call records
text messages sent and received
Skype video calls
online purchases and auction transactions
credit card/ debit card transactions
financial information
legal documents
travel documents
health records
cable television shows watched and recorded
commuter toll records
electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
facial recognition data from surveillance cameras
educational records
arrest records
driver license information
Paul Miki Nakasone is a four-star general in the United States Army
currently serves as
[1] Commander of United States Cyber Command.
He concurrently serves as
[2] Director of the National Security Agency and as
[3]Chief of the Central Security Service.
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Wikipedia
Born: November 19, 1963 (age 56 years), Saint Paul, MN
Nationality: American
Spouse: Susan Nakasone
Rank: General