Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV

Title

Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV

Subject

Twitter

Description

This document contains a presentation prepared by GCHQ that demonstrates the real-time monitoring of online activity, through a program called SQUEAKY DOLPHIN. This program uses data from a GCHQ unit, GTE - Global Telecoms Exploitation, which collects information from fiberoptic cables. The social media sites used for information collection include Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

Creator

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) - Office of SIGINT Development

Publisher

NBC

Relation

Snowden

Language

en

Date:Created

2012

Source:Classification

Top Secret

Source:Redactions

People names have been redacted, as well as two slides. The last five pages of the document are from an earlier GCHQ document in 2010. NBC News has made annotations on two slides in yellow.

Report:Creator

Mark Schone

NumPages

49

CreatorOffice

GCHQ

Date:Leaked

2014-01-27

Distribution

5VEY

Surveillance Programs

SQUEAKY DOLPHIN ; GTE - GLOBAL TELECOMS EXPLOITATION

Collection

Citation

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) - Office of SIGINT Development, “Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV,” Snowden Archive, accessed December 22, 2024, https://snowden.glendon.yorku.ca/items/show/499.

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