The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for
recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising
questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep
track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications.
The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless Informant, that details and even maps by country the voluminous amount of information it collects from computer and telephone networks.
The
focus of the internal NSA tool is on counting and categorizing the
records of communications, known as metadata, rather than the content of
an email or instant message.
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