From: Washington Post
By Craig Timberg, Published: June 6 E-mail the writer
Britain’s
Vodafone revealed Friday that several governments
are collecting surveillance data directly from its
networks without any legal review and publicly urged
more safeguards against such unfettered access to
the private communications of its customers.
The declarations, made by the world’s second-largest cellular carrier, show that the type of access to telecommunications networks enjoyed by the U.S. National Security Agency also occurs in other countries where legal protections almost certainly are lower.
Vodafone’s networks span much of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia.
The declarations, made by the world’s second-largest cellular carrier, show that the type of access to telecommunications networks enjoyed by the U.S. National Security Agency also occurs in other countries where legal protections almost certainly are lower.
Vodafone’s networks span much of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia.
The company said that voice, Internet and other
data could be collected without any court review in
“a small number” of nations. Although the company
does not name them, news reports suggested that one
is Britain, whose GCHQ intelligence agency is a
close partner of the NSA in filtering the world’s
Internet traffic. MORE
No comments:
Post a Comment