“ A exclusive branch of the NSA termed "Follow the Money" (FTM) monitors international payments,
banking and credit score card transactions and later outlets the collected knowledge in the NSA's
personal economic databank "Tracfin". The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) has been using
a method referred to as Olympia to map the communications of Brazil's Mines and Energy Ministry by targeting the
metadata of phone calls and e-mails to and from the ministry.
This enables NSA analysts to map cellphone owners' associations by correlating
their patterns of movement above time with 1000's or thousands and thousands of other phone consumers who cross their paths.
In an exertion codenamed GENIE, laptop experts can control overseas laptop or computer networks using "covert implants," a type of remotely transmitted malware on tens of countless numbers of units on a yearly basis.
Camsurf has hundreds of end users on-line at all moments.
The Guardian and The New York Times documented on key paperwork
leaked by Snowden demonstrating that the NSA has been in "collaboration with engineering organizations" as part of "an intense, multipronged hard work" to weaken the
encryption employed in professional software package, and GCHQ has a staff committed to cracking "Hotmail, Google, Yahoo and Facebook" traffic.
The New York Times described that Germany has proof that the NSA's surveillance of Merkel
began throughout George W. Bush's tenure. ”