Report on the NSA-BND Cooperation Known as Joint SIGINT Activity (JSA)

Document Date: June 18, 2014
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Agency: Press
Records Collected: Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata, Location Information, Telephone Content, Internet Content

Report announces installation of BOTANICREALTY, an NSA program that locates, identifies, and collects clear and encrypted video signals. Since its installation, the program collected over 1000 video signals, totaling hundreds of hours of raw data. Further reports detail the results of Joint SIGINT Activity (JSA), which collects over 330,000 SMS events daily. JSA increased VoIP processing and metadata collection capabilities, GSM metadata collection capabilities, and new data flows to NSA for DNI, VoIP, SMS and GSM metadata. Some of JSA's targets include Algeria, Tajikistan, Russia, Lebanon, and the UAE.