Published time: January 27, 2014 23:17
British intelligence officials (click here) can infiltrate the very cables that transfer information across the internet as well as monitor users in real time on sites like Facebook without the company's consent, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The internal documents reveal that British analysts gave instruction to members of the National Security Agency in 2012, showing them how to spy on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in real time and collect the computer addresses of billions of the sites’ uploaders.
The leaked documents are from a GCHQ publication titled ‘Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV’ (Signals Development). Published by NBC News on Monday, the papers detail a program dubbed ‘Squeaky Dolphin,’ which was developed for analysts working in “broad real-time monitoring of online activity.”
Sources told NBC that the British have proven their ability to both directly monitor the world’s web traffic cable and use a third party to view the data stream and extract information from it.
Representatives from the companies in question said they have not provided any data to the government of the United Kingdom under this program, either voluntarily or involuntarily. One person who wished to remain anonymous said that Google, the company that owns YouTube, was “shocked” to discover the UK may have been “grabbing” data for years...
I wonder how many lies the people and the companies were provided by the NSA and the British government. After all, all these companies were providing data voluntarily for the good of all humanity. Why bother asking? Except, it would cover their backsides when people were actually arrested and/or prosecuted with information from the companies.
Something like this:
Richard R. Clapper: "Magnificent."
GCHQ (click here) Agent: "Absolutely. Makes the metadata gathering completely antiquated. I mean did the metadata ever really produce anything consistent?"
Clapper: "No, it didn't really. But, I'll tell you this much, the metadata collection covers our tracks when information from these companies are actually used to arrest individuals."
GCHQ Agent: "True. Very true."
British intelligence officials (click here) can infiltrate the very cables that transfer information across the internet as well as monitor users in real time on sites like Facebook without the company's consent, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The internal documents reveal that British analysts gave instruction to members of the National Security Agency in 2012, showing them how to spy on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in real time and collect the computer addresses of billions of the sites’ uploaders.
The leaked documents are from a GCHQ publication titled ‘Psychology: A New Kind of SIGDEV’ (Signals Development). Published by NBC News on Monday, the papers detail a program dubbed ‘Squeaky Dolphin,’ which was developed for analysts working in “broad real-time monitoring of online activity.”
Sources told NBC that the British have proven their ability to both directly monitor the world’s web traffic cable and use a third party to view the data stream and extract information from it.
Representatives from the companies in question said they have not provided any data to the government of the United Kingdom under this program, either voluntarily or involuntarily. One person who wished to remain anonymous said that Google, the company that owns YouTube, was “shocked” to discover the UK may have been “grabbing” data for years...
I wonder how many lies the people and the companies were provided by the NSA and the British government. After all, all these companies were providing data voluntarily for the good of all humanity. Why bother asking? Except, it would cover their backsides when people were actually arrested and/or prosecuted with information from the companies.
Something like this:
Richard R. Clapper: "Magnificent."
GCHQ (click here) Agent: "Absolutely. Makes the metadata gathering completely antiquated. I mean did the metadata ever really produce anything consistent?"
Clapper: "No, it didn't really. But, I'll tell you this much, the metadata collection covers our tracks when information from these companies are actually used to arrest individuals."
GCHQ Agent: "True. Very true."
