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(UPDATED: May 15, 2017) On December 1, Wikileaks published 90 gigabytes of classified documents from the German parliamentary commission that investigates NSA spying and the cooperation between NSA and the German foreign intelligence service BND. The documents include 125 files from BND, 33 from the security service BfV and 72 from the information security agency BSI. It should be noted though that all documents are from the lowest classification level and lots of them are just formal letters, copies of press reports and duplications within e-mail threads. Nonetheless, the files also provide interesting new details, for example about the German classification system, BND's internal structure, the way they handled the Snowden-revelations and the use of XKEYSCORE. - BND classifications - BND organization - XKEYSCORE - - PRISM - BOUNDLESSINFORMANT - Cooperation in Afghanistan - - Intelligence Sharing - Cyber security - Index - These topics will be updated or topics will be a...

(Updated: July 16, 2017) Today it's exactly one year ago the Snowden-leaks started. Among the many highly classified documents which were disclosed during the past year are various charts that provide us with actual numbers about the amount of data the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting. Here we will take a look at those numbers and see what we can learn from them by comparing various sources and from breaking them down into NSA-divisions, countries and collection programs. As still only fragmented parts have been published, this overview cannot provide completeness or full accuracy (estimates are shown as round numbers). Numbers related to: - BOUNDLESSINFORMANT - NSA volumes and limits - GCHQ metadata collection - NSA collection by country - NSA collection by division - SSO Collection programs - Shared by 2nd party partner agencies - Shared by 3rd party partner agencies   BOUNDLESSINFORMANT The most detailed numbers about NSA's data collection are from the BOUND...

(Updated: June 7, 2015) On May 13, Glenn Greenwald published his book ' No Place To Hide ' about the Snowden-disclosures. It doesn't contain substantial new revelations, but from one of the original documents in it we can determine that NSA's largest cable tapping program is codenamed DANCINGOASIS, something which was not reported on earlier. Here we will combine information from a number of other documents and sources to create a somewhat more complete picture of the DANCINGOASIS program. Special Source Operations In Greenwald's book and on his website, the following chart from NSA's BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool was published. Although these charts are not always easy to interpret, we can rather safely assume that this one gives the overview for NSA's Special Source Operations (SSO) division, which is responsible for collecting data from major telephony and internet cables and switches. During the one month period between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013, ...

(Updated: August 9, 2017) On February 4, the Dutch government admitted that it was not NSA that collected 1,8 million metadata from phone calls of Dutch citizens, but actually their own military intelligence service MIVD. They gathered those data from foreign communications and subsequently shared them with partner agencies like NSA. Just like everyone else, the Dutch interior minister was mislead by how Glenn Greenwald erroneously interpreted the data shown in screenshots from the NSA tool BOUNDLESSINFORMANT . This let him misinform the Dutch public and parliament too, and only after being faced with a lawsuit, he finally disclosed the truth. Here's the full story. How it started The first charts from the BOUNDLESSINFORMANT tool were published by the German magazine Der Spiegel on July 29, 2013. Next to a bigger chart about Germany was a smaller one about the Netherlands, but this was completely overseen by Dutch media. Only after the French paper Le Monde came with a big story a...