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“British Spy Agency Said to Tap World’s Phone Calls, E - Mails”
by c/net
June 24th, 2013

Accusations of broad government surveillance have traveled across the pond. Britain’s intelligence agency has reportedly been collecting and storing vast amounts of data from the world’s telephone calls and Internet traffic — and sharing that information with the National Security Agency.

Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters secretly gained access to fiber-optic cables that carry the world’s communications, reports the Guardian. The GCHQ taps into huge amounts of data from these cables and stores it for up to 30 days to be looked over by analysts from GCHQ and the NSA.

The Guardian reported Friday that documents shown to them by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the secret operation, code-named Tempora. It gives the GCHQ and the NSA access to “recordings of phone calls, the content of email messages, entries on Facebook and the history of any internet user’s access to websites.”

“It’s not just a U.S. problem. The U.K. has a huge dog in this fight,” said Snowden, according to the Guardian. “They [GCHQ] are worse than the U.S.”

The GCHQ has been carrying out the operation, without warrants or “any form of public acknowledgement or debate,” for nearly 18 months, according to the report.

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