Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. You could read anyone's email in the world, anybody you've got an email address for. Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald explained XKeyscore as being a system which enables almost unlimited surveillance of anyone anywhere in the world, while the NSA has said that usage of the system is limited and restricted.Īccording to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA and he answered: XKeyscore is a complicated system, and various authors have different interpretations of its actual capabilities. Scope and functioning Part of a series on Global surveillanceDisclosuresSystemsAgenciesPeoplePlacesLaws A team of experts analyzed the source code. On July 3, 2014, German public broadcasterNorddeutscher Rundfunk, a member of ARD, published excerpts of XKeyscore's source code. The code name was already public knowledge because it was mentioned in earlier articles, and, like many other code names, it appears in job postings online résumés of employees.

In July 2013, Edward Snowden publicly revealed the program's purpose and use by the NSA in The Sydney Morning Herald and O Globo newspapers.

The NSA has shared XKeyscore with other intelligence agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, Canada's Communications Security Establishment, New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters, and Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst. XKeyscore ( XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a formerly secret computer system first used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects continually.

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