XKeyscore
Template:NSA surveillance X-Keyscore is a secret mass surveillance programme run jointly by the United States' National Security Agency, Australia's Defence Signals Directorate, and New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau. It is aimed at surveillance of foreign nationals across the world, and is done with the help of over 700 servers based in "US and allied military and other facilities as well as US embassies and consulates" in several dozen countries. [1][2][3]
The programme is centred on four bases in Australia and one in New Zealand[1] –
- Pine Gap near Alice Springs
- Shoal Bay near Darwin
- ADSCS at Geraldton
- HMAS Harman outside Canberra
- GCSB Waihopai in New Zealand.
The programme's existence was revealed in July 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden in The Sydney Morning Herald and O Globo newspapers. According to O Globo, X-Keyscore detects the nationality of foreigners by analysing the language used within intercepted emails, which the paper claims has been applied to Latin America and specifically to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico. [3]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 Jul 2013. Retrieved 11 Jul 2013.
- ↑ EUA expandem o aparato de vigilância continuamente, O Globo, 6 Jul 2013. Retrieved 8 Jul 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 No alvo dos EUA, O Globo. Retrieved 8 Jul 2013.
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