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Lindy Cameron says that income streams for criminals must be stopped.
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Lindy Cameron says that income streams for criminals must be stopped.
The story was one of several offered by Spicer as evidence to support the president’s explosive claims that Obama had moved to “tap my phones.”
And “Belfast”, and “Seán” and “pub.”
The man pretended to be the head of spy agency GCHQ.
It has been revealed that UK authorities have access to one Irish submarine internet cable.
In one six-month period in 2008, the British spy agency collected webcam imagery from more than 1.8 million Yahoo user accounts around the world.
Iain Lobban is to leave GCHQ later this year after nearly six years as its director.
The secret operation, codenamed ‘Dishfire’, used the messages to extract data on the location, contact networks and credit card details of mobile users.
Searching questions need to be asked over what type of data the EU retains – and what it does with this data, writes David Moloney.
British spy chiefs said today that intelligence leaks by Edward Snowden were being used by enemies to change the way they operate.
For most, debates about the snooping NSA and GCHQ are little more than great material for a chat down the pub – but for human rights defenders around the world, digital security is synonymous with personal security, writes Mary Lawlor.
The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has said that senior government officials pressured his paper to destroy files related to its recent stories about the National Security Agency in the US.
The Guardian says diplomats at a finance ministers’ summit in 2009 were tapped – on the day that a British-hosted G8 begins.
William Hague says any proposals by British intelligence agencies to intercept data needs the approval of ministers.
The Guardian says Britain’s GCHQ surveillance agency has been able to access data harvested by the US’s ‘PRISM’ system.
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It’s reported that the UK government is seeking the power to monitor calls, texts, emails and web visits under new legislation.
The British intelligence agency GCHQ launches its most unusual recruitment drive yet. It simply asks: can you crack it?
The Guardian says the UK’s electronic interception centre has also been asked to try and find those responsible for starting riots.