XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications

Illustrationsby Blue Delliquanti and David Axe for The Intercept

One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, and provides no built-in technology to prevent abuse.Today,The Interceptis publishing 48 top-secretand other classified documents about XKEYSCORE dated up to 2013, whichshed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system —one of the largest rel...