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Events analysis
Document
Release Date:
2015-09-25
Document Date:
2008-11-27
This GCHQ slide taken from a presentation dates 27 November 2008 confirms that agency metadata repositories can be datamined for information relating to individuals within the UK: see the Intercept article Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities, 25 September 2015.
Events analysis
SALAMANCA, HAUSTORIUM, THUGGEE, IMMINGLE
less intrusive than communications content
authorisation not needed for individuals in
the UK
necessity and proportionality st...
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PullThrough Steering Group Meeting #16
Document
Release Date:
2015-09-25
Document Date:
2008-02-29
This set of GCHQ minutes from 29 February 2008 describes a set of tools that were under development at that point, including the metadata analysis tool KARMA POLICE: see the Intercept article Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities, 25 September 2015.
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TOP SECRET STRAP1
THQ/1202THQ/1900/0058
29 February 2008
PullThrough Steering Group Meeting #16
29 February 2008.
Distribute to: In...
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To Nab Afghan Nemesis, German Forces Launch Rare Take-Down Operation; US SIGINT Provides Key Support
Document
Release Date:
2014-12-28
Document Date:
2009-06-12
This 12 June 2009 post from NSA’s internal SIDToday newsletter recounts a German/Afghan targeted operation and its support from the agency: see the Der Spiegel article Obama’s Lists: A Dubious History of Targeted Killings in Afghanistan, 28 December 2014.
SIDToday - To Nab Afghan Nemesis, German Forces Launch Rare Take-Down Operation; U.S. SIGINT Prov...
DYNAMIC PAGE - HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS
TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS C...
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Italy, Spain – Last 30 Days
Document
Release Date:
2013-07-01
Document Date:
2013-01-01
This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Italian and Spanish phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013: see the Spiegel article How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe, 1 July 2013.
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SHELLTRUMPET Processes it’s One Trillionth Metadata Record
Document
Release Date:
2014-05-13
Document Date:
2012-12-31
This 31 December 2012 post from the NSA’s intranet describes the scale of the metadata records handled by the SHELLTRUMPET analysis tool: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
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(S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY) SHELLTRUMPET Processes it|'s One Trillionth
Metadata Record
(S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY) On December 21, 2012 SHELLTRUMPET processed its
One Trillionth meta...
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CSEC – Advanced Network Tradecraft
Document
Release Date:
2013-10-06
Document Date:
2012-06-01
This CSEC presentation from June 2012, slides from which were first published by Fantástico in October 2013, describes the Canadian agency’s use of the Olympia suite of analytic tools in the context of spying on Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy: see the Globe and Mail article How CSEC became an electronic spying giant, 30 […]
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AND THEY SAID TO THE
TITANS: « WATCH OUT
OLYMPIANS IN THE
HOUSE! »
CSEC - Advanced Network Tradecraft
SD Conference June 2012
Overall Classification: TOP SECRET//SI2-6...
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Norway – Last 30 days
Document
Release Date:
2013-11-19
Document Date:
2013-01-01
This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Norwegian phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-987F: see the Dagbladet article Overhode ikke gitt tilgang, 19 November 2013.
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iPhone Location Services
Document
Release Date:
2013-09-09
These four sides from an undated NSA presentation boast the agency’s ability to access location information from iPhones – and makes fun of the “zombies” whose information is exfiltrated: see the Der Spiegel article iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data, 9 September 2013.
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TS//SI//REL to USA, FVEY
(S//RED iPhone Location Services
(U) Who knew in
1984...
TS//SI//RELto USA, FVEYphone2.jpg:
TS//SI//REL to USA, FVEY
(S//REL)
iPhone Locatio...
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AURORAGOLD
Document
Release Date:
2014-12-04
Document Date:
2011-01-01
This 4-page NSA document, presented at a Five Eyes SIGDEV conference 2011, gives an overview of the AURORAGOLD (AG) project, in which technical intelligence is gathered to ensure future agency access to mobile phone networks worldwide: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014.
SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL
(u//fouo) AURORAGOLD
(S//SI//REL) Project Overview: The mission of the AURORAGOLD (AG) project is to maintain
data about international GSM/UMT...
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Sharing Communications Metadata Across the US Intelligence Community
Document
Release Date:
2014-08-25
Document Date:
2007-05-15
This ODNI briefing from 15 May 2007 describes the rationale for ICREACH and the scale of metadata sharing that was envisioned: see the Intercept article The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google, 25 August 2014.
This Briefing is Classified TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN//20320108
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CIA Colleagues Enthusiastically Welcome NSA Training
Document
Release Date:
2014-08-25
Document Date:
2010-09-21
This 21 September 2010 memo from the NSA’s CIA Liaison Support Group reveals that ICREACH is available to “over 1000 analysts across 23 US Intelligence Community agencies”: see the Intercept article The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google, 25 August 2014.
(S//REL) CIA Colleagues Enthusiastically Welcome NSA Training
FROM: (U//FOUO)^^^^^^^|
Chief, Liaison Support Group at CIA (FBI)
Run Date: 09/21/2010
(S//REL) From our perspective - that of...
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Foreign Partners – Last 30 Days
Document
Release Date:
2014-06-18
This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of phone (DNR) and internet (DNI) records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from NSA’s foreign partners: see the Der Spiegel article Spying Together: Germany’s Deep Cooperation with the NSA, 18 June 2014.
FOREIGN PARTNER - Last 30 Days
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DNI
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Third Parties – Last 30 Days
Document
Release Date:
2014-06-18
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 […]
3RD PARTY - Last 30 Days
DHR
Signal Profile
Most Volume
Top 5 Techs
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IN MAR
g MOIP
HFCF
VSAT
FSTH
DNI
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SSO – Last 30 days
Document
Release Date:
2014-05-13
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.
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SSO - Last 30 Days
2 DNI DNR
Signal Profile
Most Volume
Top 5 Techs
fl PCS
IN MAR
MOIP
US-3171: 57.783.148,908 Records
XKEYSCORE: 41,996,304.149 Records
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FAIRVIEW – Last 30 days
Document
Release Date:
2014-05-13
This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of phone records collected between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 by NSA’s unidentified corporate partner FAIRVIEW (US-990) – some 6 billion in total: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
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Dec 10 Dec 17 Dec24 Dec31 Jan
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INMAR
a WOP
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VSAT
PSTN
DNI
Most Volume
US-990
6,142,932,557 Records
Top 5 Techs
US-990: ...
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Boundless Informant heat maps
Document
Release Date:
2013-06-11
Document Date:
2013-03-26
These undated heat maps show the number of pieces of communications data the NSA gathers per country in a particular 30 day period, divided into telephony (DNR) and internet (DNI) metadata. Details in the second map refer to a period in January 2013 and third to a period ending in February the same year: see […]
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Converged Analysis of Smartphone Devices
Document
Release Date:
2014-01-27
Document Date:
2010-05-01
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 […]
(U) Converged Analysis of
Smartphone Devices
Identification/Processing/Tasking -
All in a day’s work
TOP SECRET//COMINT/REL TO USA, FVEY
si
Converged mobile devices
offering adv...
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SSO GHOSTMACHINE Analytics
Document
Release Date:
2013-12-10
Excerpts from slides describing GHOSTMACHINE, the NSA Special Source Operations cloud-based analytics platform: see the Washington Post article New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data, 10 December 2013.
SSO GHOSTMACHINE Analytics
TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN
Fascia Limit?
5,000M
4,000M -
3,000M -
2,000M -
1,000M -
OM
Hitting The Wall
Tuskattire Volume Totals
H CERF
...
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Summary of DNR and DNI Co-Travel Analytics
Document
Release Date:
2013-12-10
Document Date:
2012-10-01
This 24 page white paper dated 1 October 2012 describes and evaluates some of the Co-Traveller tools the NSA and partner agencies uses to analyse phone location data: see the Washington Post article New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data, 10 December 2013.
TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, FVEY
Summary of DNR and DNI Co-Travel Analytics
S2I5
1 October 2012
Contact information
TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, FVEY
TOP SECRET//COMINT//R...
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2007 agreement on UK contact identifiers
Document
Release Date:
2013-11-20
Document Date:
2007-05-16
This memo from 2007 details an agreement reached that year that increased the categories of data the UK Government allowed the NSA to retain and analyse about British citizens: see the Guardian article US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data, 20 November 2013.
(S//SI//REL) SID Analysts Can Now Unminimize Incidentally Collected UK Contact Identifiers
SIGINT Policy (S02L1)
Run Date: 05/16/2007
(S//SI//REL) SIGINT Policy (S02L1) and the UK Liaison...
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SYNAPSE Data Model
Document
Release Date:
2013-09-28
This slide from an undated NSA presentation demonstrates how the agency uses email and phone data to analyse the social networks of targets (the “Agent” in the diagram): see the New York Times article N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens, 28 September 2013.
SECRET//SI//REL TO USA FVEY
(S//SI//REL USA, FVEY) SYANPSE Data Model
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Site Makes First-Ever Collect of High-Interest 4G Cellular Signal
Document
Release Date:
2014-12-04
Document Date:
2010-02-23
This 23 Febrauary 2010 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday describes advances in the agency’s capabilities against 4G signals, described as “a very high priority for NSA and the Intelligence Community”: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014. site-makes-first-ever-collect-of-high-interest
(TS//SI//REL) Site Makes First-Ever Collect of High-Interest 4G Cellular Signal
FROM: ■HU and ■HUH
RAINFALL (F78)
Run Date: 02/23/2010
(TS//SI//REL) A collaborative effort between on-sit...
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AURORAGOLD – Target Technology Trends Center/T3C support to WPMO
Document
Release Date:
2014-12-04
Document Date:
2011-01-01
This NSA briefing, given at the Five Eyes SIGDEV conference in 2011, gives an overview of AURORAGOLD data flows: see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014.
S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY
AURORAGDLD
(U//FOUO)
AURORAGOLD
Target Technology Trends Center/T3C
support to WPMO
Overall briefing classification: S//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY
S//SI//REL T...
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IR.21 – A Technology Warning Mechanism
Document
Release Date:
2014-12-04
Document Date:
2010-01-08
This 19-page NSA paper, delivered at the 2010 Five Eyes SIGDEV conference, gives a technical explanation of the importance of sourcing mobile carriers’ roaming agreements (IR.21): see the Intercept article Operation Auroragold: How the NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide, 4 December 2014. ir21-a-technology-warning-mechanism
(S//REL TO USA, FVEY ) IR.21 - A Technology
Warning Mechanism
SDC2010
SSG4/T3C Technical Director
Derived From: NSA/CSSM 1 -52
Dated: 20070108
Declassify On: 20341201
TOP SE...
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Large Scale Expansion of NSA Metadata Sharing
Document
Release Date:
2014-05-13
These two slides, taken from an undated NSA presentation, illustrate the growth in the agency’s metadata collection between 1999 and 2007: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
Page 152
SECRET//CQMINT//REL TO USA, FVEY//203201Q8
Large Scale Expansion of NSA Metadata Sharing
(S//SI//REL) Increases NSA communications metadata sharing
from 50 billion records to 85...
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Germany – Last 30 days
Document
Release Date:
2013-07-01
Document Date:
2013-01-01
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.
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Poland – Last 30 days
Document
Release Date:
2014-05-13
This Boundless Informant slide shows the number of Polish phone records collected day-by-day between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013, from a facility codenamed US-916: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.
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Dec 24
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New Tactical Collection System Joins the War on Terrorism
Document
Release Date:
2014-02-10
Document Date:
2005-03-03
This extract from a 3 March 2005 NSA briefing acknowledges that the use of geolocation technology to facilitate drone strikes “represents the dawn of a new era”: see the Intercept article The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program, 10 February 2014.
(S) New Tactical Collection System Joins the War on Terrorism (repost)
FROM: name redacted
Technical Advisor, Target Reconnaissance and Survey (S316)
Run Date: 03/03/2005
DISTANTFOCUS po...
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SKYNET: Applying Advanced Cloud-based Behavior Analytics
Document
Release Date:
2015-05-08
Document Date:
2012-01-01
This NSA presentation from 2012 introduces SKYNET, a tool for detecting patterns in bulk phone metadata: see the Intercept article U.S. Government Designated Prominent Al Jazeera Journalist as “Member of Al Qaeda”, 8 May 2015.
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SKYNET: Courier Detection via Machine Learning
Document
Release Date:
2015-05-08
Document Date:
2012-06-05
This NSA presentation from 5 June 2012 introduces SKYNET, a tool for detecting patterns in bulk phone metadata: see the Intercept article U.S. Government Designated Prominent Al Jazeera Journalist as “Member of Al Qaeda”, 8 May 2015.
TOP SECRET//COMINT//REL TO USA, FVEY
SKYNET:
Courier Detection via Machine Learning
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R66F
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T1211
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June 5, 2012
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