Snowden said the UK is 'worse than the US' in stealing private data.
UK Spies Trawl 600m Communications A Day -- Al Jazeera
GCHQ secretly tap global fibre-optic network for private data in scheme bigger than Prism, leaked documents show.
A British spy agency taps the network of cables that carry the world’s internet and telephone communications to secretly collect vast streams of private information, documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden has revealed.
The GCHQ agency scoops as much as it can from Facebook posts, email messages, internet histories and calls while tapping into the global fibre-optic network with little legal oversight, according to a report from the Guardian newspaper.
The activities are detailed in two documents leaked to the newspaper by Snowden, the former NSA and CIA worker who revealed America was spying on millions of foreigners and US nationals without their knowledge under the Prism scheme. The GCHQ scheme is billed as wider-ranging than Prism, with less legal oversight.
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My Comment: Apparently the GCHQ shares this data with the NSA. I suspect that in this sharing is a great deal of communications from US sources .... so much for the NSA's position that they do not indiscriminately monitor US citizens .... they let someone else do it and then get the data from them.
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