NSA’s Ragtime program targets Americans
Details of the program are held in the highest tiers of secrecy, known as exceptionally controlled information, with only a few NSA staffers having access to the program coque samsung galaxy ace 3 s7275 personnalisable and its data.
There were four known versions, according coque samsung galaxy note 8 pas cher to a 2013 book, released just months before the first coque samsung note 8 cdiscount documents published from the cache of documents leaked samsung galaxy tab coque by whistleblower Edward coque rigide galaxy s10 Snowden. coque samsung a50 galaxy trend coque 7560 Ragtime A is said to involve the US based collection of coque samsung galaxy s6 x-doria® defense 360° transparente foreign to foreign counterterrorism data; Ragtime B collects foreign coque samsung bourriquet government data that travels through the US; and Ragtime C focuses on the nuclear counterproliferation effort.
The document seen by ZDNet, dated November 2011, shows the Ragtime program has eleven variants, including the four that were already known. coque autres galaxy samsung The document alludes to coque slim galaxy s9 Ragtime BQ, F, N, PQ, S, and T.
The eleventh version refers to Ragtime USP. “USP” is a common term used across the intelligence coque samsung watch community to refer to “US person,” like a US citizen or lawful permanent resident.
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Americans are generally protected from government surveillance under the Fourth Amendment.
But the NSA has long “incidentally” collected data on Americans, reports and research have coque magnetique galaxy s6 revealed.
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Changes to the law had an immediate impact on the Ragtime program. coque samsung a6 Although the government was barred from collecting new metadata on Americans under Ragtime P, the NSA retained the data. coque samsung a6 Analysts with clearance were still permitted to search the database.
Only a fraction of NSA staffers have the appropriate security clearance to access Ragtime’s databases. coque autres galaxy samsung One previously leaked document says analysts must have special “need to know” clearance to access the data, and any information relating to Ragtime is restricted from being shared to foreign intelligence partners. coque iphone xr The exception is Ragtime C, which the new document implies a level of co operation from the UK government.
The data coque samsung s8 la belle et la bete stored in Ragtime’s databases is so sensitive that samsung galaxy a3 2016 coque paillette their very existence is coque samsung s7 edge bouygues compartmentalized. The clearance level for each Ragtime version, according to the document, is “unpublished,” in an effort to ensure that the programs themselves aren’t widely known about across the agency.
The NSA coque samsung s8 marche plus said in internal security guidance that unpublished classification markings are set for some programs “due to sensitivity and restrictive access controls.”
When reached, an NSA spokesperson declined to comment on Ragtime, or its coque samsung j5 2017 basket purpose.
“In accordance with longstanding policy, the National Security Agency will neither coque samsung galaxy mini gt-s5570 confirm nor deny that any of the purported information referenced in the article has any connection to NSA or the US government,” a spokesperson said.
