Going to check each of those wiki pages and was like.. oh wait, there was a bit more data to go, off this guy. Who were these couple other guys he mentions besides Snowden. Never heard of them. I ask bing AI. lol.
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Edward Snowden, Mark Klein, and William Binney are all whistleblowers who exposed the global surveillance activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its partners12
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former NSA contractor who leaked classified documents in 2013, revealing the extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, such as PRISM and XKeyscore. He is currently living in Russia, where he was granted asylum13
Mark Klein
Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who disclosed in 2006 that AT&T had installed secret equipment to allow the NSA to monitor, capture, and process American telecommunications en masse. He provided evidence of the NSA’s collaboration with major telecom companies in the US12
William Binney
William Binney is a former NSA analyst and technical director who resigned in 2001, after becoming disillusioned with the agency’s data collection policies. He was the co-founder of a unit that developed a program called ThinThread, which was designed to protect the privacy of American citizens while analyzing signals intelligence. He later became a vocal critic of the NSA’s domestic spying and accused the agency of wasting billions of dollars on ineffective programs124
These whistleblowers have raised public awareness and sparked debates about the legality, morality, and implications of global surveillance. They have also faced legal repercussions, harassment, and threats for their actions1234
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Too much text to paste it all.. I'll just get the start.
XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. 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.[1]
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 code name was already public knowledge because it was mentioned in earlier articles, and, like many other code names, it appears in job postings and online résumés of employees.[2][3]
On July 3, 2014, German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a member of ARD, published excerpts of XKeyscore's source code.[4] A team of experts analyzed the source code.[5]
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XKeyscore is a complicated system, and various authors have different interpretations of its actual capabilities. 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.
According to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA data-retrieval system which consists of a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of data and metadata that the NSA has already collected using other methods.[6][7]
According to Snowden and Greenwald
On January 26, 2014, the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk asked Edward Snowden in its TV interview: "What could you do if you would use XKeyscore?" and he answered:[1]
You could read anyone's email in the world, anybody you've got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you're tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It's a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA's information. ... You can tag individuals ... Let's say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what's called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.
According to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, low-level NSA analysts can, via systems like XKeyscore, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents. And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."[8]
He added that the NSA's database of collected communications allows its analysts to listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future".[8]
Going to check each of those wiki pages and was like.. oh wait, there was a bit more data to go, off this guy. Who were these couple other guys he mentions besides Snowden. Never heard of them. I ask bing AI. lol.
Generating answers for you…
Edward Snowden, Mark Klein, and William Binney are all whistleblowers who exposed the global surveillance activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its partners12
Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is a former NSA contractor who leaked classified documents in 2013, revealing the extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs, such as PRISM and XKeyscore. He is currently living in Russia, where he was granted asylum13
Mark Klein
Mark Klein is a former AT&T technician who disclosed in 2006 that AT&T had installed secret equipment to allow the NSA to monitor, capture, and process American telecommunications en masse. He provided evidence of the NSA’s collaboration with major telecom companies in the US12
William Binney
William Binney is a former NSA analyst and technical director who resigned in 2001, after becoming disillusioned with the agency’s data collection policies. He was the co-founder of a unit that developed a program called ThinThread, which was designed to protect the privacy of American citizens while analyzing signals intelligence. He later became a vocal critic of the NSA’s domestic spying and accused the agency of wasting billions of dollars on ineffective programs124 These whistleblowers have raised public awareness and sparked debates about the legality, morality, and implications of global surveillance. They have also faced legal repercussions, harassment, and threats for their actions1234
oh, we got a new tidbit that guy didn't mention.
Too much text to paste it all.. I'll just get the start.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. 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.[1]
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 code name was already public knowledge because it was mentioned in earlier articles, and, like many other code names, it appears in job postings and online résumés of employees.[2][3]
On July 3, 2014, German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a member of ARD, published excerpts of XKeyscore's source code.[4] A team of experts analyzed the source code.[5]
Scope and functioning Part of a series on Global surveillance
Disclosures OriginsPre-20132013–presentReactions Systems XKeyscorePRISMECHELONCarnivoreDishfireStone GhostTemporaFrenchelonFairviewMYSTICDCSNBoundless InformantBullrunPinwaleStingraySORMRAMPART-AMastering the InternetJindalee Operational Radar Network Agencies NSAR&AWCSEBNDCNIASIODGSEFive EyesFSBMSSGCHQ Places The DoughnutFort MeadeMenwith HillPine GapSouthern Cross CableUtah Data CenterBad Aibling StationDagger ComplexGCHQ Bude Laws Five Eyes UKUSA AgreementLustreU.S. USA Freedom ActFISA amendmentsEU Data Retention DirectiveData Protection DirectiveGDPRChina National Intelligence LawCybersecurity LawUK Investigatory Powers Act 2016 Proposed changes U.S. FISA Improvements ActOther proposals Concepts Mass surveillanceCulture of fearSecure communicationSIGINTCall detail recordSurveillance issues in smart cities Related topics EspionageIntelligence agencyCryptography TorVPNsTLSHuman rights PrivacyLibertySatellitesStop Watching UsNothing to hide argument vte XKeyscore is a complicated system, and various authors have different interpretations of its actual capabilities. 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.
According to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA data-retrieval system which consists of a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of data and metadata that the NSA has already collected using other methods.[6][7]
According to Snowden and Greenwald On January 26, 2014, the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk asked Edward Snowden in its TV interview: "What could you do if you would use XKeyscore?" and he answered:[1]
You could read anyone's email in the world, anybody you've got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you're tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It's a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA's information. ... You can tag individuals ... Let's say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what's called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.
According to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, low-level NSA analysts can, via systems like XKeyscore, "listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents. And it's all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst."[8]
He added that the NSA's database of collected communications allows its analysts to listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future".[8]