The National Security Agency (NSA) and its German equivalent, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), traded access to the U.S. Internet surveillance program XKeyscore for targeted surveillance information on German citizens, The National Journal reports. While former German Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar claimed that he “knew nothing about such an exchange deal," an official memo obtained by Die Ziet—the outlet that broke the story—indicates that Germany pledged to "(u)tilize XKeyscore in a manner consistent with German law and in a manner reasonably likely not to result in the targeting of U.S. persons," the report continues.
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