MUSCULAR

MUSCULAR (DS-200B), located in the United Kingdom,[1] is the name of a surveillance program jointly operated by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that was revealed by documents released by Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.

[1] GCHQ and the NSA have secretly broken into the main communications links that connect the data centers of Yahoo!

[4] According to the leaked document the NSA's acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo!

[3] According to The Washington Post, the MUSCULAR program collects more than twice as many data points ("selectors" in NSA jargon) compared to the better known PRISM.

After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.

Idea behind the MUSCULAR program, which gave direct access to Google and Yahoo private clouds, no warrants needed.
Idea behind the MUSCULAR program, which gave direct access to Google and Yahoo private clouds, no warrants needed.