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PRISM (surveillance program)

Index PRISM (surveillance program)

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. [1]

188 relations: Ai Weiwei, Amelia Marzec, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Angela Merkel, AOL, Apple Inc., Artmotion, Bill Maher, Blarney (code name), Booz Allen Hamilton, Boundless Informant, Bulk personal datasets, Bullrun (decryption program), Caspar Bowden, Censorship in the United Kingdom, Central Monitoring System, Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, Codefellas, Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure, Comparison of mobile operating systems, Conscience, Conspiracy theory, Controversial invocations of the Patriot Act, Criticism of Apple Inc., Criticism of Dropbox, Criticism of Facebook, Criticism of Microsoft, Crypto-anarchism, Cyber Insider Threat, Cyveillance, Data Intercept Technology Unit, Data retention, Data shadow, Data sovereignty, DEF CON, Digital Network Intelligence, Digital privacy, Digitale Gesellschaft, Dissident, Dropbox (service), DSMA-Notice, DuckDuckGo, Edward Snowden, Enemy of the State (film), Espionage Act of 1917, European Cloud Partnership, Facebook, FBI Index, Five Eyes, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, ..., Fourth Amendment Protection Act, Fusion center, George W. Bush, Gerhard Schindler, Glenn Greenwald, Global surveillance, Global surveillance by category, Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present), Global surveillance whistleblowers, GNUnet, Google, Google Search, Government Accountability Project, Government Communications Headquarters, Government Information Awareness, Hans-Peter Friedrich, Hemisphere Project, Hepting v. AT&T, ICANN, ICWATCH, Information Awareness Office, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, Internet censorship in the United States, Internet governance, Internet privacy, Internet service provider, Investigatory Powers Tribunal, JibJab, Jim Sensenbrenner, Keith B. Alexander, Klayman v. Obama, Kolab Now, Laird v. Tatum, Larry King, Law Enforcement Information Exchange, Library Freedom Project, List of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe episodes, List of Chuck gadgets, List of free and open-source Android applications, List of government mass surveillance projects, List of secret police organizations, List of The Colbert Report episodes (2013), List of whistleblowers, Magic Lantern (software), Main Core, MAINWAY, Mark Udall, Mark Zuckerberg, Mass surveillance, Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom, Mass surveillance in the United States, Max Schrems, Maxine Waters, Microsoft, Mikko Hyppönen, Militarization of police, Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation, MUSCULAR (surveillance program), Nancy Pelosi, Narus (company), National Internet Exchange of India, National Security Agency, National Security Law Journal, Neo Magazin Royale, Netroots Nation, News leak, NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007), Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Origins of global surveillance, Paltalk, Panopticon, Patrick Leahy, Patriot Act, Pinwale, Political positions of Brian Schweitzer, Political positions of Dianne Feinstein, Political repression, Politico-media complex, Presidency of Barack Obama, President's Daily Brief, Prism (disambiguation), Privacy concerns regarding Google, Privacy laws of the United States, Project SHAMROCK, Ragtime (code name), Reactions to global surveillance disclosures, Restore the Fourth, Richard Ledgett, Richard Stallman, Right to privacy, Robert Mueller, Ron Paul, Room 641A, RT (TV network), RT America, Satiric misspelling, September 11 attacks, SIGINT Activity Designator, Skype, Skype protocol, Skype Technologies, Special Source Operations, State (website), Stellar Wind, Surveillance, Surveillance capitalism, Targeted surveillance, Technological sovereignty, Tempora, Terrorist Surveillance Program, The Day We Fight Back, The Good Wife (season 5), The Guardian, The Intercept, The Intersect (Chuck), ThinThread, Thomas A. Drake, Timeline of Dropbox, Timeline of global surveillance disclosures (2013–present), Timeline of United States history, Tom Udall, Tor (anonymity network), TURBINE (US government project), Turbulence (NSA), Twister (software), UKUSA Agreement, Unified Targeting Tool, United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Upstream collection, USA Freedom Act, Utah Data Center, Wayne Madsen, William Binney (intelligence official), XKeyscore, YouTube, 2010s, 2038. Expand index (138 more) »

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist.

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Amelia Marzec

Amelia Marzec (born 1980) is an American Interactive Artist based in New York City.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author.

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Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner, born 17 July 1954) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000.

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AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Artmotion

Artmotion Ltd. is a Swiss based data housing provider.

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Bill Maher

William Maher (born January 20, 1956) is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host.

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Blarney (code name)

BLARNEY is a communications surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.

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Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. (informally: Booz Allen) is an American management and information technology consulting firm, sometimes referred to as a government-services company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in Greater Washington, D.C., with 80 other offices around the globe.

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Boundless Informant

Boundless Informant (stylized as BOUNDLESSINFORMANT) is a big data analysis and data visualization tool used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).

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Bulk personal datasets

"Bulk personal datasets" is the UK government's euphemism for datasets containing personally identifiable information on a large number of individuals, as part of mass surveillance in the United Kingdom and on citizens around the world.

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Bullrun (decryption program)

Bullrun (stylized BULLRUN) is a clandestine, highly classified program to crack encryption of online communications and data, which is run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA).

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Caspar Bowden

Caspar Pemberton Scott Bowden (19 August 1961 – 9 July 2015) was a British privacy advocate, formerly chief privacy adviser at Microsoft.

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Censorship in the United Kingdom

Censorship in the United Kingdom has a long history with variously stringent and lax laws in place at different times.

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Central Monitoring System

The Central Monitoring System, abbreviated to CMS, is a centralized telephone interception provisioning system installed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), an Indian Government owned telecommunications technology development centre, and operated by Telecom Enforcement Resource and Monitoring (TERM) Cells.

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Clapper v. Amnesty International USA

Clapper v. Amnesty International,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Amnesty International USA and others lacked standing to challenge (also known as Section 702) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as amended by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008.

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Codefellas

Codefellas is an American animated political satire web series starring Emily Heller and John Hodgman distributed by Wired magazine.

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Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure

Commentary on Edward Snowden's disclosure is part of the reactions to global surveillance disclosures made by Edward Snowden.

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Comparison of mobile operating systems

This is a comparison of mobile operating systems.

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Conscience

Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment that assists in distinguishing right from wrong.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.

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Controversial invocations of the Patriot Act

The following are controversial invocations of the USA PATRIOT Act.

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Criticism of Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is a multinational American technology company which sells consumer electronics that have been claimed by critics to combine stolen and/or purchased designs that it claims are its own original creations.

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Criticism of Dropbox

Criticism of Dropbox centers around various forms of security and privacy controversies surrounding Dropbox, an American company specializing in cloud storage and file synchronization.

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Criticism of Facebook

Criticism of Facebook relates to how Facebook's market dominance have led to international media coverage and significant reporting of its shortcomings.

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Criticism of Microsoft

Criticism of Microsoft has followed various aspects of its products and business practices.

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Crypto-anarchism

Crypto-anarchism (or crypto-anarchy) is a cyber-spatial realization of anarchism.

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Cyber Insider Threat

Cyber Insider Threat, or CINDER, is a digital threat method.

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Cyveillance

In 2015, Cyveillance was acquired by LookingGlass Cyber Solutions.

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Data Intercept Technology Unit

The Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU, pronounced DEE-too) is a unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, which is responsible for intercepting telephone calls and e-mail messages of terrorists and foreign intelligence targets inside the US.

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Data retention

Data retention defines the policies of persistent data and records management for meeting legal and business data archival requirements; although sometimes interchangeable, not to be confused with the Data Protection Act 1998.

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Data shadow

Data shadows refer to the information that a person leaves behind unintentionally while taking part in daily activities such as checking their e-mails, scrolling through social media or even by using their debit or credit card.

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Data sovereignty

Data Sovereignty is the idea that data are subject to the laws and governance structures within the nation it is collected.

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DEF CON

DEF CON (also written as DEFCON, Defcon, or DC) is one of the world's largest hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the first DEF CON taking place in June 1993.

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Digital Network Intelligence

Digital Network Intelligence or DNI is a term used in the United States Intelligence Community that refers to "intelligence from intercepted digital data communications transmitted between, or resident on, networked computers.".

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Digital privacy

Digital privacy is a trending social concern.

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Digitale Gesellschaft

Digitale Gesellschaft (literally, Digital Society) is a German registered association founded in 2010, that is committed to civil rights and consumer protection in terms of internet policy.

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Dissident

A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution.

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Dropbox (service)

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software.

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DSMA-Notice

A DSMA-Notice (Defence and Security Media Advisory Notice) — formerly a DA-Notice (Defence Advisory Notice), and before that called a Defence Notice (D-Notice) until 1993—is an official request to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.

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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

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Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization.

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Enemy of the State (film)

Enemy of the State is a 1998 American conspiracy-thriller film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Marconi.

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Espionage Act of 1917

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.

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European Cloud Partnership

The European Cloud Partnership (ECP) is an advisory group set up by the European Commission as part of the European Cloud Computing Strategy to provide guidance on the development of cloud computing in the European Union.

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Facebook

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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FBI Index

The FBI Indexes is a system used to track American citizens and other people by the FBI before the adoption by the Bureau of computerized databases.

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Five Eyes

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008

The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, also called the FAA and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008, is an Act of Congress that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

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Fourth Amendment Protection Act

The Fourth Amendment Protection Acts, are a collection of state legislation aimed at withdrawing state support for bulk data (metadata) collection and ban the use of warrant-less data in state courts.

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Fusion center

A fusion center is an intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination state or major urban area center, which is owned by state, local, and territorial law enforcement and Department of Homeland Security entities, many of which were jointly created between 2003 and 2007 under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gerhard Schindler

Gerhard Schindler (born 4 October 1952 in Kollig, West Germany) is a German civil servant and former President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the German Federal Intelligence Service.

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Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author, best known for his role in a series of reports published by The Guardian newspaper beginning in June 2013, detailing the United States and British global surveillance programs, and based on classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden.

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Global surveillance

Global surveillance refers to the mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders.

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Global surveillance by category

This is a category of disclosures related to global surveillance.

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Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)

Ongoing news reports in the international media have revealed operational details about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners' global surveillance of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens.

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Global surveillance whistleblowers

Global surveillance whistleblowers are whistleblowers who provided public knowledge of global surveillance.

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GNUnet

GNUnet is a software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking and an official GNU package.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Google Search

Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google.

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Government Accountability Project

The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a whistleblower protection and advocacy organization in the United States.

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Government Communications Headquarters

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom.

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Government Information Awareness

The Government Information Awareness (GIA) project was an initiative of the MIT Media Lab, designed "to provide American citizens with digital tools for participating in the democratic process." The GIA initiative was inspired by the Total Information Awareness project of the US government's Information Awareness Office, and was predicated on the premise that citizens have a right to maintain information on the government - similar to what information the government maintains on the citizens.

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Hans-Peter Friedrich

Hans-Peter Friedrich (born 10 March 1957) is a German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union (CSU).

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Hemisphere Project

The Hemisphere Project, also called simply Hemisphere, is a mass surveillance program conducted by US telephone company AT&T and paid for by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Hepting v. AT&T

Hepting v. AT&T is a United States class action lawsuit filed in January 2006 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) against the telecommunications company AT&T, in which the EFF alleges that AT&T permitted and assisted the National Security Agency (NSA) in unlawfully monitoring the communications of the United States, including AT&T customers, businesses and third parties whose communications were routed through AT&T's network, as well as voice over IP telephone calls routed via the Internet.

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ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numericalspaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.

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ICWATCH

ICWATCH is a public database of mainly LinkedIn profiles of people in the United States Intelligence Community.

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Information Awareness Office

The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology to track and monitor terrorists and other asymmetric threats to U.S. national security by achieving "Total Information Awareness" (TIA).

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Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is a U.S. nonprofit public policy think tank based out of Washington, D.C. The organization focuses on public policies that spur technology innovation.

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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a function of ICANN, a nonprofit private American corporation that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers.

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Internet censorship in the United States

Internet censorship in the United States is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States.

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Internet governance

Internet governance is the development and application of shared principles, norms, rules, decision-making procedures, and programs that shape the evolution and use of the Internet.

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Internet privacy

Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via of the Internet.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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Investigatory Powers Tribunal

In the United Kingdom, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is a judicial body, independent of the British government, which hears complaints about surveillance by public bodies—in fact, "the only Tribunal to whom complaints about the Intelligence Services can be directed".

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JibJab

JibJab is a digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California.

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Jim Sensenbrenner

Francis James Sensenbrenner Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who has represented in the United States House of Representatives since 1979.

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Keith B. Alexander

Keith Brian Alexander (born December 2, 1951) is a retired four-star general of the United States Army who served as director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA), chief of the Central Security Service (CHCSS) and commander of the United States Cyber Command.

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Klayman v. Obama

Klayman v. Obama was an American federal court case concerning the legality of the bulk collection of both phone and Internet metadata by the United States.

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Kolab Now

Kolab Now is a web-based email and groupware service, based completely on free and open-source software.

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Laird v. Tatum

Laird v. Tatum,, was a case in which the United States Supreme Court dismissed for lack of ripeness a claim in which the plaintiff accused the U.S. Army of alleged unlawful "surveillance of lawful citizen political activity." The appellant's specific nature of the harm caused by the surveillance was that it chilled the First Amendment rights of all citizens and undermined that right to express political dissent.

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Larry King

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and 10 Cable ACE Awards.

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Law Enforcement Information Exchange

The Law Enforcement Information Exchange is a database which is maintained by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

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Library Freedom Project

The Library Freedom Project teaches librarians about surveillance threats, privacy rights, and digital tools to thwart surveillance.

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List of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe episodes

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is a British television review programme broadcast on BBC Four written and presented by Charlie Brooker.

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List of Chuck gadgets

As Chuck is a comedy series with strong ties to both geek and tech-culture, and also part of the "spy" genre, some emphasis is placed on technology within the show.

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List of free and open-source Android applications

This is an incomplete list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.

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List of government mass surveillance projects

This is a list of government surveillance projects and related databases throughout the world.

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List of secret police organizations

This is a list of current secret police organizations.

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List of The Colbert Report episodes (2013)

This is a list of episodes for The Colbert Report in 2013.

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List of whistleblowers

This is a list of major whistleblowers from various countries.

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Magic Lantern (software)

Magic Lantern is keystroke logging software developed by the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Main Core

Main Core is the code name of an American governmental database that is believed to have been in existence since the 1980s.

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MAINWAY

MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the four largest telephone carriers in the United States: AT&T, SBC, BellSouth (all three now called AT&T), and Verizon.

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Mark Udall

Mark Emery Udall (born July 18, 1950) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Colorado from 2009 to 2015.

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding and leading Facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer.

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Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.

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Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom

The use of electronic surveillance by the United Kingdom grew from the development of signal intelligence and pioneering code breaking during World War II.

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Mass surveillance in the United States

The practice of mass surveillance in the United States dates back to WWI wartime monitoring and censorship of international communications from, to, or which passed through the United States.

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Max Schrems

Maximilian Schrems (usually referred to as Max Schrems) is an Austrian lawyer, author and privacy activist who became known for campaigns against Facebook for privacy violation, including its violations of European privacy laws and alleged transfer of personal data to the US National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the NSA's PRISM program.

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Maxine Waters

Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 2013.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Mikko Hyppönen

Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist.

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Militarization of police

Militarization of police refers to the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.

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Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation

The Montevideo Statement on the Future of Internet Cooperation was released on 7 October 2013 by the leaders of a number of organizations involved in coordinating the Internet's global technical infrastructure.

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MUSCULAR (surveillance program)

MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom, is the name of a surveillance programme jointly operated by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents which were released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

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Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives since 2011, representing most of San Francisco, California.

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Narus (company)

Narus Inc. was a software company and vendor of big data analytics for cybersecurity.

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National Internet Exchange of India

The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a government non-profit company established in 2003 to provide neutral Internet Exchange Point services in India.

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National Security Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence.

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National Security Law Journal

The National Security Law Journal is a biannual student-edited law journal at George Mason University School of Law.

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Neo Magazin Royale

Neo Magazin Royale is a German satirical late-night talk show hosted by Jan Böhmermann.

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Netroots Nation

Netroots Nation is a political convention for American progressive political activists, originally organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, a liberal political blog.

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News leak

A news leak is the unsanctioned release of confidential information to news media.

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NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)

NSA warrantless surveillance (also commonly referred to as "warrantless-wiretapping" or "-wiretaps") refers to the surveillance of persons within the United States, including United States citizens, during the collection of notionally foreign intelligence by the National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

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Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) is an executive directorate of the UK government Home Office, created in 2007, responsible for leading the work on counter-terrorism in the UK, working closely with the police and security services.

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Origins of global surveillance

The origins of global surveillance can be traced back to the late 1940s, when the UKUSA Agreement was jointly enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States, whose close cooperation eventually culminated in the creation of the global surveillance network, code-named "ECHELON", in 1971.

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Paltalk

Paltalk is a proprietary video group chat service that enables users to communicate via video, internet chat and voice.

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Panopticon

The Panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.

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Patrick Leahy

Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a seat he was first elected to in 1974.

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Patriot Act

The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress signed into law by US President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.

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Pinwale

Pinwale is the code name for an NSA collection and retrieval system for so-called "Digital Network Intelligence", including internet e-mail.

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Political positions of Brian Schweitzer

Brian Schweitzer, the former Governor of Montana, has taken positions on many political issues through public comments and official acts.

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Political positions of Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein is the current senior senator in the U.S. Senate representing California.

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Political repression

Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group within society for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take part in the political life of a society thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens.

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Politico-media complex

The politico-media complex (PMC, also referred to as the political-media complex) is a name that has been given to the close, systematized, symbiotic-like network of relationships between a state's political and ruling classes, its media industry, and any interactions with or dependencies upon interest groups with other domains and agencies, such as law (and its enforcement through the police), corporations and the multinationals.

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Presidency of Barack Obama

The presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2017.

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President's Daily Brief

The President's Daily Brief --> (PDB), sometimes referred to as the President's Daily Briefing or the President's Daily Bulletin, is a top-secret document produced and given each morning to the President of the United States, and is also distributed to a small number of top-level US officials who are approved by the President, and includes highly classified intelligence analysis, information about CIA covert operations and reports from the most sensitive US sources or those shared by allied intelligence agencies.

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Prism (disambiguation)

A prism is a transparent optical component with flat surfaces that refract light.

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Privacy concerns regarding Google

Regarding privacy concerns with the technology corporation Google, Google's privacy change (March 1, 2012) enables the company to share data across a wide variety of services.

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Privacy laws of the United States

The privacy laws of the United States deal with several different legal concepts.

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Project SHAMROCK

Project SHAMROCK, considered to be the sister project for Project MINARET, was an espionage exercise, started in August 1945 that involved the accumulation of all telegraphic data entering into or exiting from the United States.

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Ragtime (code name)

Ragtime or RAGTIME is the code name of four secret surveillance programs conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.

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Reactions to global surveillance disclosures

The global surveillance disclosure released to media by Edward Snowden has caused tension in the bilateral relations of the United States with several of its allies and economic partners as well as in its relationship with the European Union.

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Restore the Fourth

Restore the Fourth is an American 501(c)(4) nonprofit that seeks to strengthen the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and end programs that violate it.

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Richard Ledgett

Richard H. Ledgett Jr. is a former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

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Right to privacy

The right to privacy is an element of various legal traditions to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals.

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Robert Mueller

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is an American attorney who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013.

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Ron Paul

Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013.

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Room 641A

Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency that commenced operations in 2003 and was exposed in 2006.

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RT (TV network)

RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international television network funded by the Russian government.

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RT America

RT America is a TV channel based in Washington, D.C., and part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow, Russia, and funded by the Russian government.

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Satiric misspelling

A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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SIGINT Activity Designator

A SIGINT Activity Designator (or SIGAD) identifies a signals intelligence (SIGINT) line of collection activity associated with a signals collection station, such as a base or a ship.

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Skype

Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

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Skype protocol

The Skype protocol is a proprietary Internet telephony network based on client-server architecture, used by Skype.

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Skype Technologies

Skype Technologies S.A.R.L (also known as Skype Software S.A.R.L, Skype Communications S.A.R.L, Skype Inc., and Skype Limited) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg and Palo Alto, CA, United States, whose chief business is the manufacturing and marketing of the video chat and instant messaging computer software program Skype, and various Internet telephony services associated with it.

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Special Source Operations

Special Source Operations is a division in the American National Security Agency (NSA) which is responsible for all programs aimed at collecting data from major fiber-optic cables and switches, both inside the US and abroad, and also through corporate partnerships.

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State (website)

State is a semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd.

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Stellar Wind

"Stellar Wind" (or "Stellarwind") was the code name of a warrantless surveillance program begun under the George W. Bush administration's President's Surveillance Program (PSP).

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Surveillance

Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people.

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Surveillance capitalism

Surveillance capitalism is a term first introduced by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney in Monthly Review in 2014 and later popularized by academic Shoshana Zuboff that denotes a new genus of capitalism that monetizes data acquired through surveillance.

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Targeted surveillance

Targeted surveillance (or targeted interception) is a form of surveillance that is targeted on specific persons of interest and distinguished from mass surveillance (or bulk interception).

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Technological sovereignty

Technological sovereignty is a political outlook that information and communications infrastructure and technology is aligned to the laws, needs and interests of the country in which users located; data sovereignty or information sovereignty sometimes overlaps with technological sovereignty, since their distinctions are not so clear cut, and also refers to subjection of information to the laws of the country in which the data subject is a citizen, or the information is stored or flows through, whatever its form, including when it has been converted and stored in binary digital form.

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Tempora

Tempora is the codeword for a formerly secret computer system that is used by the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

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Terrorist Surveillance Program

The Terrorist Surveillance Program was an electronic surveillance program implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

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The Day We Fight Back

The Day We Fight Back was a one-day global protest against mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA), the UK GCHQ, and the other Five Eyes partners involved in global surveillance.

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The Good Wife (season 5)

The fifth season of The Good Wife began airing on September 29, 2013, airing Sundays at 9:00 p.m. The season received critical acclaim, with the general consensus calling it the series' best season.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Intercept

The Intercept is an online news publication dedicated to what it describes as "adversarial journalism".

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The Intersect (Chuck)

The Intersect is a fictional secret technology appearing in the television series ''Chuck''.

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ThinThread

ThinThread is the name of a project that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) pursued during the 1990s, according to a May 17, 2006 article in The Baltimore Sun.

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Thomas A. Drake

Thomas Andrews Drake (born 1957) is a former senior executive of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), a decorated United States Air Force and United States Navy veteran, and a whistleblower.

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Timeline of Dropbox

This is a timeline of online file storage and collaboration service Dropbox.

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Timeline of global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)

This timeline of global surveillance disclosures from 2013 to the present day is a chronological list of the global surveillance disclosures that began in 2013.

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Timeline of United States history

This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes as well as political, social, and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states.

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Tom Udall

Thomas Stewart Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from New Mexico, a seat he was first elected to in 2008.

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Tor (anonymity network)

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication.

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TURBINE (US government project)

TURBINE is the codename of an automated system which in essence enables the automated management and control of a large network of implants (a form of remotely transmitted malware on selected individual computer devices or in bulk on tens of thousands of devices).

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Turbulence (NSA)

Turbulence is a United States National Security Agency (NSA) information-technology project started c. 2005.

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Twister (software)

Twister is free software for experimental peer-to-peer microblogging.

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UKUSA Agreement

The United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement (UKUSA) is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Unified Targeting Tool

The Unified Targeting Tool (UTT) is a software program used by NSA to select targets for surveillance.

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United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC, also called the FISA Court) is a U.S. federal court established and authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

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Upstream collection

Upstream collection is a term used by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States for intercepting telephone and Internet traffic from the Internet backbone, i.e. major Internet cables and switches, both domestic and foreign.

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USA Freedom Act

The USA Freedom Act is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of the Patriot Act, which had expired the day before.

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Utah Data Center

The Utah Data Center, also known as the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is a data storage facility for the United States Intelligence Community that is designed to store data estimated to be on the order of exabytes or larger.

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Wayne Madsen

Wayne Madsen (born April 28, 1954) is an American journalist, author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.

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William Binney (intelligence official)

William Edward BinneyVideo-Interview by is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency.

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XKeyscore

XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a formerly secret computer system first used by the United States National Security Agency for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects on a daily basis.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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2010s

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand (and) tens").

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2038

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References

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