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In the spirit of openness and transparency, here is a partial list of current and planned future data collection targets:

internet searches (ie; here's a collection of searches by Federal Government workers)

websites visited

emails sent and received

social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)

blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on - View our patent

videos watched and/or uploaded online

photos viewed and/or uploaded online

mobile phone GPS-location data

mobile phone apps downloaded

phone call records - View our patent

text messages sent and received

Skype video calls

online purchases and auction transactions

credit card/ debit card transactions

financial information

legal documents

travel documents

health records

cable television shows watched and recorded

commuter toll records

electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses

facial recognition data from surveillance cameras

educational records

arrest records

driver license information

Sample Collection Data - In Real Time

The PRISM program is our #1 source of raw intelligence and consists of data extracted from the servers of nine major American internet companies. In the spirit of openness and transparency, we have embedded the Twitter feed from the NSA_PRISMbot which periodically posts random samples of PRISM collection data.

Tweets by @NSA_PRISMbot

How We Follow Your Data

GCHQ, our UK surveillance partners across the pond, created this handy explainer diagram below to illustrate how easy it is to follow the data trail of ordinary internet users.

Internet surveillance - map of internet users and website visits

https://nsa.gov1.info/data/index.ht