Sentence examples for communications acquired from inspiring English sources
"The actual number of wholly domestic communications acquired may still be higher," Bates wrote.
Somewhere between "2,000-10,000" of those involved multiple communications acquired in single collections, such as the e-mail inbox screenshots.
The documents note that the private data of Americans that the N.S.A. can hold on to "include electronic communications acquired because of limitations on NSA'S ability to filter communications".
The rules said that "the communications that may be retained" for up to five years "include electronic communications acquired because of the limitation on the N.S.A.'s ability to filter communications".
The NSA is empowered to retain data for up to five years and the policy states "communications which may be retained include electronic communications acquired because of limitations on the NSA's ability to filter communications".
As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed in a Friday letter, the NSA searches communications acquired under the 2008 surveillance law for personal identifiers of Americans thousands of times per year.
It revealed that in 2015 GCHQ "identified 141,251 communications addresses or identifiers of interest from communications data acquired in bulk pursuant to section 94 directions which directly contributed to an intelligence report".
But despite rumors of deals, which have included talk of Nextel Communications being acquired by AT&T Wireless, and Verizon Wireless taking over Sprint PCS, the most probable acquirers do not seem to be much in the buying mood just now.
Red Sky in San Francisco, a specialist in interactive communications, has acquired Olive Jar Studios, an animation and film production company based in Boston and Los Angeles, and White Noise Productions, a multimedia agency in Los Angeles.
Level 3 Communications has acquired IP solutions and networking provider Global Crossing.
New players such as Technauts, Whistle Communications (recently acquired by IBM), Cobalt Networks and Encanto Networks are vying for the attention of customers.
