GCHQ in Cheltenham (Image: GCHQ via CNET)
UK Gathering Secret Intelligence Via Covert NSA Operation -- The Guardian
Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world's biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme
The UK's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world's biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America's top spy agency, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents show that GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, has had access to the system since at least June 2010, and generated 197 intelligence reports from it last year.
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More News On The U.K. Government's Involvement In The NSA Prism Spy Program
Britain 'secretly gathering intelligence through internet firms' -- The Telegraph
Britons ARE being spied on by surveillance agencies: GCHQ using phone records and online data gleaned by US government to snoop on citizens -- Daily Mail
Britain's GCHQ 'used NSA spy programme Prism to covertly gather information from leading internet companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo and Skype' -- The Independent
UK Government Gathering Data Using Top Secret Prism Programme -- International Business Times
GCHQ gets US spy data from Google and Facebook -- London Evening Standard
UK government allegedly is involved in PRISM snooping programme -- The Inquirer
Verizon giving US government information about British companies -- The Telegraph
U.K. government 'complicit' in NSA's PRISM spy program -- ZDNet
UK enters NSA PRISM accusations with GCHQ snooping -- Slash Gear
1 comment:
The US intelligence services were set up primarily in the lead-up to World War II, with the direct assistance of the UK.
With that as a starting point, & skipping over an enormous amount of detailed information, US intelligence, certainly at the upper levels, is almost physically incapable of being separated from that of the UK in a number of major areas. Noted, my conclusion is the result of information from some 20 years ago, but I fail to see how it could have a marked difference today. It is of the same notion that sees the US in a unique historical position for electronic surveillance because it invented the telephone system.
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