The Spy Factories: NSA’s XKeyscore Isn’t the Only Program Tracking You


When whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed his NSA files in 2013, one sneaky program stood out: XKeyscore, a secret system that spies can use to search and analyze nearly everything you do on the internet in real-time.

XKeyscore is still hoovering up your internet searches, passwords, user names, emails, and personal messages a decade later. In fact, it’s not the only tool governments used to spy on your personal data. Here are five ways the US, Britain, Israel, Canada, and others may be spying on you right now.



CIA snooping on Americans

The CIA is vacuuming up data in bulk so spies can sift through it, according to two members of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

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