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TOPSECRETSTRAP1 XKEYSCORE HELPER NOTES There are several new and updated features in this release of the XKEYSCORE Palantir helper: Summary/Histogram import of data 0 Data sourcing for XKEYSCORE ...

New documents published in The Guardian reveal that the NSA can snoop on you in real time–and that the agency is building a giant keyword-based database of everything connected to the Internet, ...

An NSA system called XKeyscore gives the US intelligence community full access to your email, IMs, browsing history, and social media activity. To access almost everything that you do online, all an ...

Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet, as was recently reported? Yes, and ...

Until Wednesday morning, you'd probably never heard of something called "XKeyscore," a program that the National Security Agency itself describes as its "widest reaching" means of gathering data from ...

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NSA documents leaked to the Guardian in 2013 described a covert program called XKeyscore, which involved a searchable database for intelligence analysts to scan intercepted data. Now, new documents ...

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 ...

The National Security Agency never provided its historical legal analyses of its XKeyscore surveillance system, according to a member of the independent oversight ...

Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called XKeyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email ...