XKeyscore: collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’

Edward Snowden’s latest leak confirms the existence of an NSA program that allows analysts to search through vast databases about internet user’s activity without any prior authorisation. This program, known as XKeyscore, is the NSA’s “widest-reaching” surveillance system for tracking activity on the Internet. As Snowden told The Guardian back in June: “I, sitting at my desk,” […]