Overview#
TRAFFICTHIEF is an
National Security Agency (
NSA)
Government Data Store and analysis toolset for intercepted
Internet metadata operated under the
TURBULENCE program from a subset of tasked strong-selectors," according to an
XKEYSCORE presentation. An example of a strong selector is an
email address that the
metadata associated with
names,
Phone Numbers,
email addresses, and other identifying information that
Intelligence Agencies are specifically targeting. Journalist Marc Ambinder speculates the program is a "raw
SIGINT viewer for
data Analytics."
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