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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBritish Intelligence watchdog flies to Washington to demand answers on snooping scandal
The Government's Intelligence and Security Committee is going on a week-long tour, when it will meet senior figures from the Americas intelligence agencies.
The news came after leaked US documents appeared to show that Britains listening post GCHQ has been secretly gathering intelligence from some of the worlds biggest internet firms through Americas National Security Agency.
The Guardian newspaper claimed that it had obtained documents that show that GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, has had access to the system since at least June 2010, and generated 197 intelligence reports from it last year.
It raises the prospect that the intelligence agency is able to circumvent UK restrictions on accessing peoples communications by obtaining the same information via the US authorities.
The news came after leaked US documents appeared to show that Britains listening post GCHQ has been secretly gathering intelligence from some of the worlds biggest internet firms through Americas National Security Agency.
The Guardian newspaper claimed that it had obtained documents that show that GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, has had access to the system since at least June 2010, and generated 197 intelligence reports from it last year.
It raises the prospect that the intelligence agency is able to circumvent UK restrictions on accessing peoples communications by obtaining the same information via the US authorities.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/10107059/British-Intelligence-watchdog-flies-to-Washington-to-demand-answers-on-snooping-scandal.html
Isn't that the whole point of Echelon? We spy on British citizens and they spy on our citizens, so no one is spying on their own citizens? That way, no one is breaking the law and it is all good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
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British Intelligence watchdog flies to Washington to demand answers on snooping scandal (Original Post)
FarCenter
Jun 2013
OP
It is almost laughable to compare communications in the 1940s to the NSA activities today
1-Old-Man
Jun 2013
#3
The system between Roosevelt and Churchill used one-time pads on phongraph records.
FarCenter
Jun 2013
#4
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)1. Cause no way in hell he was going to use the phone.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)2. I'm fairly certain that GCHQ and NSA can set up a secure phone call
Their predecessors could for Roosevelt and Churchill during WW II.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)3. It is almost laughable to compare communications in the 1940s to the NSA activities today
And even more laughable to imply that the NSA doesn't monitor its own.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)4. The system between Roosevelt and Churchill used one-time pads on phongraph records.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?