This Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes Through an NSA Listening Post
Mar 28 2017, 9:25am
IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”
Internet data pinballs across national borders, and for Canadians this means potentially exposing it to eavesdropping by US-based corporations and the National Security Agency.
Now, an interactive mapping tool named Internet Exchange Mapping (IXmaps), re-launched for public use today, will show you how—and how easily—you data can be spied on by tracing the oftentimes byzantine routes data takes when traversing the internet.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ixmaps-privacy-surveillance-nsa-canada
