Mass surveillance

1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell

signals intelligence organization of the United States

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google and Apple under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. Among other things, the NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on

fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

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US intelligence agency in charge of satellite intelligence

monetization of personal information

intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population

Aadhaar is a twelve-digit unique identity number that can be obtained voluntarily by all residents of India based on their place of residence, biometrics and demographic data. The data is collected by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), a statutory authority established in January 2016 by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, following the provisions of the Aadhaar Act, 2016.

North Korean "walled garden" national intranet

XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a classified computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. The NSA has shared XKeyscore with other intelligence agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, Canada's Communications Security Establishment, New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, Japan's Defense Intelligence Headquarters, Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst, and the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, the latter of

Teufelsberg (; German for ''Devil's Hill'') is a non-natural hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about above the surrounding Teltow plateau and above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest. It was named after the Teufelssee (Devil's Lake) in its southerly vicinity. The hill is made of debris and rubble, and covers an unfinished Nazi military-technical college (Wehrtechnische Fakultät). During the Cold War, there was a U.S. listening station on the hill, Field Station Berlin. The site of the former field station is now fenced off

contact tracing mobile app for the identification of persons who may have come into contact with a person infected with COVID-19

chipset that was developed and promoted by the NSA

CryptoParty (Crypto-Party) is a grassroots global endeavour to introduce the basics of practical cryptography such as the Tor anonymity network, I2P, Freenet, key signing parties, disk encryption and virtual private networks to the general public. The project primarily consists of a series of free public workshops.

electronic communication monitor used by the FBI

policies for meeting archival requirements of persistent data and records management

right|thumb|The GCHQ|Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) operates "Tempora"

1978 United States federal law

Code name of a decryption program run by the NSA.

Swedish signals intelligence agency

mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders

large-scale intranet maintained by a nation-state as a substitute for the Internet

negative award

arrangement in which fear of retribution is pervasive

National Security Agency data storage facility in on Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah, United States

The System for Operative Investigative Activities (SORM; ) is the technical specification for lawful interception interfaces of telecommunications and telephone networks operating in Russia. The current form of the specification enables the targeted surveillance of both telephone and Internet communications. Initially implemented in 1995 to allow access to surveillance data for the FSB, in subsequent years the access has been widened to other law enforcement agencies.

2019 nonfiction book by Edward Snowden

Act of the Parliament of Australia, currently registered as C2024A00127

European Union directive on storing telephony communications

US surveillance program

Dropmire is a surveillance program by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) aimed at surveillance of foreign embassies and diplomatic staff, including those of NATO allies. The program's existence was revealed in June 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden in The Guardian. The report alleged that at least 38 foreign embassies were under surveillance, some of them as far back as 2007.

practice by which operators of websites collect, store and share information about a particular user's activity on the World Wide Web

government agency

American facial recognition company

form of online targeted advertising

government agency established by the DARPA to achieve "Total Information Awareness"

Wikimedia list article

Internet monitoring effort from the Indian government

2018 non-fiction work by Shoshana Zuboff

analytics company in New York, USA

2014 PlayStation Vita action RPG game

upright=1.35|thumb|MYSTIC reporting for the Philippines (VENATOR), Mexico (EVENINGEASEL), Kenya (DUSKPALLET), the Bahamas (BASECOAT) and the initially unnamed country from January through April 2012

MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.

The National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID is an integrated intelligence master database structure for counter-terrorism purposes which connects databases of various core security agencies under the Government of India. It collects and analyses comprehensive patterns procured from 21 different organizations that can be readily accessed by security agencies round the clock. As of September 2025 its CEO is Hirdesh Kumar.

operations center at the NSA

term used by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States

surveillance strategy

Internet mass surveillance and data collection programme operated by Britain's GCHQ

program developed by the British Government Communications Headquarters

communications surveillance program of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States

overview of mass surveillance in the United States of America

Netzpolitik.org is a German language news website on digital rights and digital culture. Among other topics, it covers mass surveillance, open source software, data protection and privacy and net neutrality. The blog was founded in 2002 by Markus Beckedahl, who led the project until July 2022 and still works on the project today, supported by more than 30 other contributors. Since August 2022, Netzpolitik.org is led by two co-editors-in-chief Anna Biselli and Daniel Leisegang.

state-actor security exploit by the government of Kazakhstan

SEXINT is the practice of monitoring and/or characterizing/indexing the pornographic preferences of internet users in an effort to later use the information for blackmail. The term is a portmanteau of sexual intelligence retrieved on an intelligence service target and was first used by Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

watchlist maintained by the Transportation Security Administration in United States

U.S. law governing telecommunications

electronic, print, or other information collected by a state