The scariest thing about Telling Lies, the new political thriller from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, is that it takes the NSA at its word. One feature is the system’s ability to limit what an analyst can do with a tool… and no analyst can operate freely.” This statement painted a much different picture, assuring the public that tools like XKeyscore “have stringent oversight and compliance mechanisms built in at several levels. Six months earlier, the NSA had issued a press release in response to the publication of classified materials leaked by Snowden. Anybody you’ve got email address for, any website you can watch traffic to and from it, any computer that an individual sits at you can watch it, any laptop that you’re tracking you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world.” In 2014, the whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke with German broadcaster NDR about a National Security Agency tool known as XKeyscore: “a front end search engine that allows to look through all of the records they collect worldwide every day.” According to Snowden, someone with access to the system “could read anyone’s email in the world.
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