Saturday, November 2, 2013

AFP — Germany, France, Spain carry out mass online and phone surveillance in collaboration with Britain: Snowden files

Spy agencies in Germany, France, Spain and Sweden are carrying out mass surveillance of online and phone traffic in collaboration with Britain, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the Guardian newspaper reported Saturday.
Britain’s GCHQ electronic eavesdropping centre — which has a close relationship with the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) — has taken a leading role in helping the other countries work around laws intended to limit spying, the British newspaper said.
The report is likely to prove embarrassing for governments including those of Germany and Spain, which had denounced earlier reports that the NSA was electronically spying on their citizens.
The Raw Story
Germany, France, Spain carry out mass online and phone surveillance in collaboration with Britain: Snowden files
Agence France-Presse
Mark Hosenball
"Intelligence indicates that Miranda is likely to be involved in espionage activity which has the potential to act against the interests of UK national security," according to the document.
"We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material the release of which would endanger people's lives," the document continued. "Additionally the disclosure, or threat of disclosure, is designed to influence a government and is made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause. This therefore falls within the definition of terrorism..."

3 comments:

system failure due to insufficient evolution? said...

"Training" societies in tolerating interceptions

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/training-societies-in-tolerating.html

Tom Hickey said...

Good post. Training societies in accepting the exchange of constitutional liberties for supposed security but which is actually tyranny.

Unknown said...

Can you imagine how much insider financial information is being gleaned by those with the right security badge?

If everything wasn't completely rigged before, it sure as hell is now.