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XKeyscore: Real time Internet Monitoring Program

By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Wed Jul 31, 2013 at 08:43:33 PM EST
Tags: NSA warrantless surveillance, XKeyscore (all tags)
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Via the Guardian: Edward Snowden's latest contribution to letting the world know what the U.S. Government doesn't want you to know: XKeyscore.

Analysts can also use XKeyscore and other NSA systems to obtain ongoing "real-time" interception of an individual's internet activity.

....One top-secret document describes how the program "searches within bodies of emails, webpages and documents", including the "To, From, CC, BCC lines" and the 'Contact Us' pages on websites".

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