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June 21, 2013 09:11 pm GMT
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UK Spy Agency Allegedly Taps Into Transatlantic Cables To Collect Data, Pays Companies For Cost Of Cooperation
According to the latest set of documents from Edward Snowden that were released by the Guardian today, the Britsh spy agency GCHQ has been tapping into 46 transatlantic fiber-optic cables that carry data between Europe and North America to collect and store email messages, Facebook posts and other information for at least the last 18 months. Though the program, code-named "Tempora," has supposedly been built up over the last five years.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/r5qFztCpZpk/
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