Google-like Search Engine ICREACH Invented By NSA

Google-like Search Engine ICREACH Invented By NSA

Now US government agencies will have easier access to information through more than 850 billion records.      A “Google-like” has been created by the National Security Agency for around two dozen US government agencies to get access to information through communication records. These records include phone calls, emails and internet chats, as per a media report. The Google-like secret search engine will play a key role in searching information from over 850 billion records which the US government collects through multiple agencies. The engine has been named “ICREACH” and it contains information on the private communications of foreigners but it looks like records of American citizens who have never been accused of any crime, The Intercept has reported. There are various classified documents and the search tool has been designed in a way to become the largest system for internal sharing of secret surveillance records in the US. This tool is also capable of handling two to five billion new records every day. A US official who is familiar with the system said that “it enables the sharing of certain foreign intelligence metadata” but ICREACH is “not a repository (and) does not store events or records.” The existence of this search engine is also known by the Director of National Intelligence and it notes that sharing information is like “a pillar of the post-9/11 intelligence community”. It's also a part of the efforts to prevent valuable intelligence from being “stove-piped in any single office or agency.”