Boundless informant
Boundless Informant ( Engl. For boundless Informant ) is a as Top Secret classified computer system by the US secret National Security Agency (NSA) . It is used to filter out significant connections from a wealth of intelligence data with the help of data mining technology - for example, the communication of a single person from a wealth of e-mails and telephone metadata .
Boundless Informant became known on June 11, 2013 by former NSA employee Edward Snowden in an article in the British newspaper The Guardian .
technology
Mainframes and software from the field of artificial intelligence , such as those produced by IBM in its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, are required to store the data for evaluation by Boundless Informant . The NSA built the Utah Data Center , a data center in the mountains of Utah that was completed in August 2014. Another NSA data center, two-thirds the size of the Utah data center, is currently being built at NSA headquarters in Fort George G. Meade .
See also
Web links
- Boundlessinformant - Frequently Asked Questions (English; PDF; 1.8 MB) from June 9, 2012. Online at netzpolitik.org.
- Christian Stöcker, Judith Horchert: Prism and Tempora: Facts and Consequences . In: Spiegel Online . July 3, 2013. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glenn Greenwald, Ewen Macaskill: Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data ( English ) In: The Guardian . June 11, 2013. Accessed March 23, 2014.
- ^ NSA Utah Data Center - Serving Our Nation's Intelligence Community. Retrieved January 16, 2016 .
- ^ NPR: Amid Data Controversy, NSA Builds Its Biggest Data Farm ( English ) In: National Public Radio . June 10, 2013. Accessed March 23, 2014.