(1) MYSTIC, which initially intercepts, extracts and stores the
communications data of all mobile phone calls made to, from or
within targeted countries;
(2) DISHFIRE, which initially intercepts, extracts and stores the
content and communications data of 194 million text messages per
day;
(3) CO-TRAVELLER, which initially intercepts, extracts and stores
nearly 5 billion records a day relating to the location of mobile
phones around the world;
(4) MUSCULAR, which initially intercepted and extracted data directly
as it transits to and from Google and Yahoo’s private data centres;33
and
(5) XKEYSCORE, a processing and query system used by the NSA and
GCHQ for data initially intercepted and extracted through various
bulk surveillance programmes.
66.
Each of these programmes is described in fuller detail in the Factual
Appendix. The US Government has publicly acknowledged a number of
these programmes and the details of those acknowledgements are also
described further in the Factual Appendix.
67.
Apart from evidence the Applicants presented to the IPT, additional
information regarding bulk surveillance programmes appearing to operate
under the auspices of Executive Order 12333 has also surfaced in the
public domain. The Applicants describe four such programmes –
primarily to public domain information. Where it is unclear whether a programme is still active,
the Applicants have described it in the present tense.
33 This appears to be a joint programme with GCHQ and/or a programme to which GCHQ has
access.
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