ICREACH
Icreach is a search engine of the National Security Agency for the different databases of the United States Intelligence Community . Icreach was in the wake of the global surveillance and espionage revealed after Edward Snowden provided documents that the intercept on 25. August 2014 in an article "How the NSA built its own secret google " ( How the NSA her own secret Google built ) prepared .
function
"The ICREACH team delivered the first-ever wholesale sharing of communications metadata within the US Intelligence Community, [..] compelled by the IC's increasing need for communications metadata and NSA's ability to collect, process and store vast amounts of communications metadata related to worldwide intelligence targets. "
“The Icreach team enabled the very first comprehensive access to communication metadata within the US intelligence services, [..] prompted by their increased need for metadata and the ability of the NSA to collect, exploit and access these via intelligence services worldwide to store."
As early as 2007, the search engine made available more than 850 billion data records for 30 different types of data such as e-mails , telephone calls , faxes and short messages . Also radio cells queries could by entering IMEI done -Nummern.
"To me, this is extremely troublesome, the myth that metadata is just a bunch of numbers and is not as revealing as actual communications content was exploded long ago — this is a trove of incredibly sensitive information."
“To me this is extremely worrying. The myth that metadata is just a bunch of numbers and not as revealing as the content of real communication was destroyed long ago. This is extremely sensitive information "
Since the previous systems “CRISSCROSS” and “PROTON” no longer met the requirements of the NSA and other US services, the creation of ICREACH was initiated in 2006 by NSA boss Keith Alexander .
Legal position
The search engine can be used by analysts from other authorities when it comes to foreign intelligence. Legally, if analysts want to see data collected under the Patriot Act , it must be about tracking down terrorist activity.
Data collection is legitimized by Executive Order 12333 , which came into force in 1981. However, this is also criticized in the USA itself, as it was not intended for use on the Internet due to its age. The presidential decree enables both metadata and content to be saved. This storage of the data is not subject to any judicial control. There are no protective mechanisms for US citizens if their data was recorded "by chance" abroad rather than in the USA. It doesn't matter whether they are suspected of an act or not. There are practically no protective mechanisms for foreign citizens.
Individual evidence
- ↑ secret project icreach: NSA operates its own search engine. In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ icreach Wholesale Sharing (2007), the intercept - Website, August 25, 2014. Accessed September 15, 2014.
- ↑ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/08/25/icreach-nsa-cia-secret-google-crisscross-proton
- ^ R% yan Gallagher: The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA built its own secret google , The Intercept - Website, August 25, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ↑ NSA provides US authorities with data via search engine. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 26, 2014, accessed September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Executive Order 12333 of December 4, 1981 at archives.gov, accessed on August 26, 2014
- ↑ Martin Holland: NSA scandal: ICREACH searches hundreds of billions of communication data on heise.de from August 26, 2014, accessed on August 26, 2014