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Keyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet


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2014 Jul 3, 5:27am   1,557 views  4 comments

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data

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.

US officials vehemently denied this specific claim. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said of Snowden's assertion: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."

But training materials for XKeyscore detail how analysts can use it and other systems to mine enormous agency databases by filling in a simple on-screen form giving only a broad justification for the search. The request is not reviewed by a court or any NSA personnel before it is processed.

I miss my 4th amendment, that's for sure. This is just so Orwellian.

#politics

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1   MisdemeanorRebel   2014 Jul 3, 7:15am  

Gentlemen don't read other Gentlemen's Mail.

BTW, they caught that 19-year old Nurse at Denver because of her parents. They also couldn't find the Tsarev (sp?) brothers without feet on the ground.

2   Dan8267   2014 Jul 3, 7:30am  

This won't end until some group hacks into the NSA servers, copies everything, and then starts releasing the browser history, emails, chats, and nude selfies of every member of Congress.

The embarrassment and scandals that result will ensure that Congress unanimously votes to end all NSA spying out of fear of more of their private stuff being leaked to the world.

Hey Anonymous, how about you get on this?

3   Booger   2017 Oct 28, 6:23am  

More importantly, what type of porn do suspected terrorists prefer?
4   anonymous   2017 Oct 28, 6:42am  

Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

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