A new NSA program, named X-Keyscore was leaked today. This project can give an NSA analyst access to almost everything a citizen does on the Internet.
When revealing PRISM, Edward Snowden claimed all he needed as an NSA operative was an email address to wiretap virtually anyone. As Edward Snowden said to the Guardian on June 10, “I, sitting at my desk could wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email.” He was talking about the X-Keyscore project.
This system is available for use by NSA analysts and does not require a warrant. The "warranting procedure" is that you request data on certain individuals. X-Keyscore will keyword search data beginning and ending in the US. The system can search social media data as well as Internet sites.
The data searched is not permanent, due to that the system gathers billions of records a day. The databases can simply not hold all of these records, so every few days, the databases empty, and the process begins all over again. The NSA claims that these searches are aimed completely at overseas targets, and not at American citizens.
“X-Keyscore is used as a part of NSA’s lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system,” the NSA said to the Guardian. “Allegations of widespread, unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data are simply not true.”
You can check out the full report over at the Guardian.
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