UK’s Top Spy Agency Now Exposed for Tapping Global Communications
Secret document detailing GCHQ’s ambition to ‘master the internet’
Stephen: The revelations about who’s watching who continue to go public courtesy of Edward Snowden. The UK’s top spy agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is now exposed for tapping firbre-optic cables to access emails, Facebook, track internet usage and access and much more.
And, in separate articles, for which I’ve provided links at the end of this story: Google’s Street View now faces prosecution for stealing personal data and Skype is revealed as helping the NSA access its customers’ data. It seems the selling of this info is how these services have remained ‘free’ for ‘all to use’. But as we’re now seeing, the price for ‘free’ online communications services is secrecy and undisclosed privacy invasion.
GCHQ Taps Fibre-optic Cables for Secret Access to World’s Communications
By Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Nick Hopkins, Nick Davies and James Ball, The Guardian – June 21, 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-commun...
Britain’s spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world’s phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process vast streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA).
The sheer scale of the agency’s ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation,
http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/06/uks-top-spy-agency-now-exposed-for-ta...
