Surveillance Archive
NSA, CIA, FBI, GCHQ are among those who heavily engaged in surveillance activities around the world. This archive contains PDF reports and important articles regarding the global surveillance program.
Important Articles
NSA (Update!)
- How Congress’s May Expand the NSA’s Warrantless Surveillance Authority - eff.org NSA Files: Decoded - theguardian.com How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe - spiegel.de The NSA and Its Willing Helpers - spiegel.de Surveillance Under the Patriot Act - aclu.org All Your Data - How the NSA Surveillance Works - eff.org The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant - theguardian.com NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily - theguardian.com XKeyscore - NSA's Google for the World's Private Communication - theintercept.com Why the NSA Didn't Want Your Anti-Virus Software to Work - gizmodo.com New documents reveal parameters of NSA’s secret surveillance programs - washingtonpost.com Snowden documents reveal how the NSA searches voice calls - engadget.com A Close Look at the NSA's Most Powerful Internet Attack Tool - wired.com Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases - theguardian.com
GCHQ (UK)
- A simple guide to GCHQ's internet surveillance programme Tempora - wired.com GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications - theguardian.com How GCHQ Justifies the Mass Surveillance of UK Social Media Users - motherboard.vice.com How does GCHQ's internet surveillance work? - theguardian.com The UK Tempora Program Captures Vast Amounts of Data — and Shares with NSA - theatlantic.com IP Bill is the most extreme surveillance law ever passed - newsweek.com The UK Now Wields Unprecedented Surveillance Powers - theverge.com
Google, Apple, Facebook
- How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data - spiegel.de NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say - washingtonpost.com NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others - theguardian.com Google’s secret NSA alliance: The terrifying deals between Silicon Valley and the security state - salon.com Google Chrome Silently Listening to Your Private Conversations - thehackernews.com NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens - nytimes.com Spy Agencies Tap Data Streaming From Phone Apps - nytimes.com Apple Admits Siri Voice Data is Being shared with Third Parties - thehackernews.com Apple Tracks Who You're Chatting Using iMessage — and Shares that Data with Police - thehackernews.com Facebook is Listening to Users Conversations - hackread.com