Dishfire Presentation
Document Date:
June 9, 2011
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Agency:
Press
Document Type:
Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata, Financial Records, Location Information, Internet Content
NSA documents revealing a program codenamed 'Dishfire' that collects up to 200 million text messages a day from around the globe. A further program known as 'Prefer' conducted automated analysis on the texts.