PRISM, meet Tempora: the British spy agency’s program to capture calls, Facebook messages, emails, and more!

 
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Why go to Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo for their data if you can just intercept it on the world’s network of fiber-optic cables?

That, apparently, is what British spy agency GCHQ is doing, according to new revelations from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. According to documents revealed by Snowden to the Guardian, GCHQ has tapped 200 of the world’s fibre optic cables, is surveilling more than 600 million “telephone events” a day, can intercept emails, check Internet users’ access of websites, and can see what people are posting on Facebook.

It’s called the Tempora program, and the British agency’s sharing the data with 850,000 NSA employees and private contractors.
According to the latest revelations, Britain actually has greater capabilities than the U.S. spy agencies and few legal constraints, making it a leader among the “five eyes” intelligence community of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that is processing more metadata than the NSA.
 
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Our Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore soon it will be worldwide the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and................? :@
 
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