Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores huge quantities of global email messages,Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA,latest documents from Edward Snowden revealBritain's spy agency GCHQ has secretly gained access to the network of cables which carry the world's phone calls and internet traffic and has started to process huge streams of sensitive personal information which it is sharing with its American partner, the National Security Agency (NSA).
The sheer scale of the agency's ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, or aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate.
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Source: theguardian.com