

The ACLU’s deputy legal director, Jameel Jaffer, told The Guardian that national security officials expressly said that a primary purpose of the new law was to enable them to collect large amounts of communications by Americans without individual warrants.

individuals, but NSA analysts are permitted to intercept the communications of such individuals without a warrant if they are in contact with one of the NSA’s foreign targets. The FISA Amendments Act (2008) requires a warrant for targeting U.S. “I, sitting at my desk, (can) wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email address.” The Guardian (June 10). The program’s existence was most publicly revealed in July 2013 by Edward Snowden in The Sydney Morning Herald and O Globo newspapers.

Provides a series of viewers for common data types.Stores full-take data at the collection site, indexed by meta-data.“Rolling buffer” of ~3 days of ALL unfiltered data seen by XKeyscore:.The DNI presenter enables an analyst using this tool to read the content of Facebook chats or private messages. Beyond emails, the XKeyscore system allows analysts to monitor a virtually unlimited array of other Internet activities, including those within social media.
