our network
This 2012 post from the NSA internal newsletter SSO News is one of a series collated here related to the extension of the agency’s FAIRVIEW collection to eight sites in major US cities: see the Intercept article The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities, 25 June 2018.
Revealed documents
FAIRVIEW Home
This undated internal NSA document gives a brief overview of FAIRVIEW, the agency’s major upstream collection of internet data facilitated by “key corporate partner” AT&T: see the Intercept article The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities, 25 June 2018.
Changes to Handling of FAA-702 Collection
This internal NSA memo from SIGINT Director Teresa H Shea shows how the agency reacted to a October 2011 ruling of the FISA court, which was declassified after Edward Snowden’s revelations began. The ruling found that NSA had been intercepting the communications of non-targeted persons in the United States, violating the Fourth Amendment. The memo announces minimal changes to the Agency’s procedures, which the agency finally admitted were lacking in 2017, when it finally amended its mode of collection: see the Intercept article The Wiretap Rooms: The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight U.S. Cities, 25 June 2018.
CTIC: It’s Not Just Another Pretty Space
This 2006 from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday gives an account of the CounterTerrorism Innovation Center which, among other projects, was working on the agency’s voice recognition system VoiceRT: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
How Is Human Language Technology Progressing?
This article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday discusses the progress of the agency’s voice recognition efforts, particularly in Spanish and the languages spoken in Afghanistan: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Come to SIDs Identity Intelligence (I2) Day Conference and See Your Target in a Whole New Light!
This 2010 article from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday advertises a conference on Identity Intelligence (I2), “the ability to extract identity attributes of foreign persons-of-interest from databases across the United States Government”: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Voice/Fax User Group Minutes of October 2008 meeting
These GCHQ minutes from October 2008 describes how the agency and its partners can re-use voice recognition data in different situations: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
SIGINTers Use Human Language Technology to Great Advantage, Isolate Conversation About Threat to US
This September 2010 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday recounts how voice recognition technology enabled analysts to find the salient record from over 1300 voice conversations in “less than four minutes”:
see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Alvin, Simon, and… Al Qaeda? Finding Modified Voice in SIGINT Traffic
This February 2010 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday draws attention to voice-masking technology used by subjects of surveillance to frustrate the agency’s voice-recognition efforts: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.
Alert: Voice Masking Is Discovered in SIGIN
This March 2007 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday draws attention to voice-masking technology used by subjects of surveillance to frustrate the agency’s voice-recognition efforts: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.