XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
• XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations
One presentation claims the XKeyscore program covers 'nearly everything a typical user does on the internet'
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to
search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing
emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of
individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward
Snowden.
The NSA
boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its
"widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSAsurveillance
programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the
Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents
in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.
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