U.S. has stolen millions of text messages from Chinese phones, claims Snowden

My first thought is wow.

My second thought is why?

My guess is this way the US government can get a better understanding of what the Chinese are thinking. Once you have mass of information, you can do analysis to easily get trends and such.

And yes, the loss of privacy for anything that is in an electronic format worries me.

U.S. has stolen millions of text messages from Chinese phones, claims Snowden - Mail Online