Report on NSA Visit to FORNSTAT Collection Site
Document Date:
October 31, 2006
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Agency:
Press
Records Collected:
Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata, Location Information, Telephone Content, Internet Content
Report on the NSA's visit to FORNSTAT collection site in Germany to gain insights into BND's collection, processing, and analytic capabilities. The site collects over 420,000 voice and facsimile communication events per day and an average of 62,000 email communication events per day. The collection site can also view and listen to voice and fax communications, perform geo-locational selection of mobile communications, and characterize movement patterns on geo-coordinates to find persons.