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This document is a selection of slides from an internal NSA presentation describing the PRISM program. This program involved mining internet metadata directly from the servers from nine leading U.S. Internet companies. The NSA's partners in this…

This document is a selection of slides from an internal NSA presentation describing the PRISM program. This program involved mining internet metadata directly from the servers from nine leading U.S. Internet companies. The NSA's partners in this…

This document is a NSA classification guide for the WHIPGENIE program. WHIPGENIE has a security classification of ECI (Exceptionally Controlled Information). The program covers Special Source Operations (SSO) relationships with U.S. Corporate…

This document is an extract from an NSA presentation. It describes SERENDIPITY, which was seemingly an effort by the NSA to target Microsoft for similar SIGINT sourcing programs that affected Google and Yahoo. These slides show efforts to intercept…

This document is a cover slide from a NSA Special Source briefing presentation for the MYSTIC voice call surveillance program.

This document is an extract from an internal NSA presentation. It outlines how NSA analysts used the data analysis tool XKEYSCORE to gain access to the talking points of the U.N. Secretary General prior to their meeting with President Barack Obama.

This document is a briefing describing the NSA's problems with overcollection of data from email address books and instant messaging buddy lists, as well as NSA efforts to filter out useless information. The briefing concludes with a case study of an…

This document is an article from SSO News, the Internal Newsletter of the NSA's Special Source Operations. It describes a ruling made on 3 October 2011, where a judge from the FISA Court argued that Upstream collection were in violation of the fourth…

This document is a series of presentation slides created by the NSA's Special Source Operations. It describes the MUSCULAR program, a program administered by GCHQ that collects the internet "cloud" traffic of Yahoo and Google from an interception…

This document is a presentaion slide prepared by NSA Special Source Operations, detailing the training and approval for PRISM access granted to 100 GCHQ users during the 2012 Olympics and the status of the collection as of 24 May 2012.