An analyst must simply complete a simple onscreen form, and seconds later, your online history is no longer private. The program gives analysts the ability to search through the entire database of your information without any prior authorization - no warrant, no court clearance, no signature on a dotted line.
The NSA sums up the program best: XKeyscore is its “widest reaching” system for developing intelligence from the Internet. This latest revelation comes from XKeyscore training materials, which Snowden also provided to The Guardian. Shortly after publication, Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former Booz Allen Hamilton employee who worked for the NSA for four years, came forward as the source. The Guardian exposed the program on Wednesday in a follow-up piece to its groundbreaking report on the NSA’s surveillance practices. The National Security Agency’s top-secret program essentially makes available everything you’ve ever done on the Internet - browsing history, searches, content of your emails, online chats, even your metadata - all at the tap of the keyboard. You’ve never heard of XKeyscore, but it definitely knows you.
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