21.07.2013 - 08:35 [ Verge ]

Surveillance documents reveal tight partnership between NSA and German government

According to Der Spiegel, Germany‘s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BFV) — which deal in foreign and domestic intelligence, respectively — have been actively using an NSA program called XKEYSCORE, which was revealed earlier this month in a series of top secret Powerpoint slides published in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.