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New Greenwald Revelation: ‘Widest Reaching’ NSA Program Accesses ‘Nearly Everything’ User Does Online
Mediaite
Evan McMurry
7/31/2013
Excerpt:
On Wednesday morning, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed information about a National Security Agency program called XKeyscore, which the agency itself called the “‘widest-reaching’ system for developing intelligence from the internet.”
Working from training slides leaked by Edward Snowden, Greenwald described the program as a “simple on-screen form” that allows analysts access to “‘nearly everything a typical user does on the internet,’ including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.”
Targeted surveillance of U.S. citizens requires FISA approval, but the technology still allows analysts to sweep up vast amounts of information on U.S. citizens through their contact with foreign nationals—which may have been the program’s overriding intent.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-g...r-does-online/
Mediaite
Evan McMurry
7/31/2013
Excerpt:
On Wednesday morning, Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed information about a National Security Agency program called XKeyscore, which the agency itself called the “‘widest-reaching’ system for developing intelligence from the internet.”
Working from training slides leaked by Edward Snowden, Greenwald described the program as a “simple on-screen form” that allows analysts access to “‘nearly everything a typical user does on the internet,’ including the content of emails, websites visited and searches, as well as their metadata.”
Targeted surveillance of U.S. citizens requires FISA approval, but the technology still allows analysts to sweep up vast amounts of information on U.S. citizens through their contact with foreign nationals—which may have been the program’s overriding intent.
View the complete article at:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-g...r-does-online/
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