This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of German phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from Third Party sources. The US-987LA sigad that accounts for the largest number of records is based in Germany: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the immense number of phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) metadata records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 for NSA Special Source Operations from a number of sources including XKeyScore: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

This NSA presentation from May 2010 describes the kinds of information the agency can extract from smartphone traffic, describing the use of mobile apps as a “golden nugget”. Note that this is the first version of this document released online: see the Pro Publica article Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal […]

This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of German phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from sources codenamed US-987LA and US-987LB: see the Der Spiegel article How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe, 1 July 2013.

This 26-page NSA document, originally presented at 2012’s Five Eyes SIGDEV conference, gives a detailed overview of the agency’s information gathering on world mobile phone networks. Some intercepted technical and contact details have been redacted: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014.