What XKS Does With the Sessions

Document Date: May 13, 2014
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Agency: Press
Document Type: Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected: Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata

NSA slides describing how the NSA computer system Xkeyscore, through the use of "plug-ins," extracts and indexes information like e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Webmail, Chat activity, and document file information during individuals' online sessions.