Saturday, August 03, 2013

How everything you do online is tracked and stored...

Thanks to a single National Security Agency program, the spy agency can monitor everything you do online, including searches, emails, chats, streaming video, purchases, and much more.

The program is called XKeyscore, and it is latest the bombshell to come from the Edward Snowden NSA leaks. The Guardian reporter Greenwald believes the XKeyscore documents validate Snowden’s claims that he could wiretap anybody anywhere in the world without asking anybody for permission. Greenwald and Snowden’s allegations are supported by various images that detail how XKeyscore works when it comes to monitoring all your communications and private data. Below you can see a crucial image that details how the program works.

The training presentation indicates that XKesycore lets NSA analysts search metadata: the information about phone and Internet usage collected by the agency. It allows an NSA agent to see if an individual sent any emails or even made a phone call. This would make it easy for NSA analysts to pinpoint an individual by his or her email or Facebook usage, especially when we factor in what the NSA can find out from just your phone records alone.

The XKeyscore training materials show that an agent can target anybody for surveillance using the program. Worse, a tool included in the program called DNI Presenter lets agents read stored emails, Facebook conversations, and chats. Full story...

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