The World's Second-Largest Mobile Phone Company Admits Spy Agencies Have Direct Access To Its Networks

A ‘Nightmare Scenario:’ Vodafone Reveals Huge Global Snooping Program -- Time

If you're a Vodafone customer, chances are your government has the tools to listen in directly

Just a day after the first anniversary of Edward Snowden’s watershed surveillance leaks, the world’s second-largest mobile phone company has announced that numerous government agencies have direct and open access to the conversations of its 381 million customers across the globe.

Privacy advocates are calling it a “nightmare scenario.”

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