GCHQ

July 26, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (11/13): EU-USA: Data surveillance

25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EP Inquiry: Letter from Martin Schulz, MEP, President of the European Parliament to the Council Presidency2. GERMANY-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: ‘Key Partners’: The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA3. Extract from the Minutes of the 4 July 2013 meeting of COREPER II: EU-US High Level expert group on security Continue reading

Europe, Spies-R-Us, Statewatch

database state, EU, GCHQ, intelligence, liberties, NSA, Statewatch, surveillance
July 16, 2013

NSA is more than just a spy network, it’s global fascism

Despite the size and scope of Edward Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing, there’s little sign of Washington DC changing its practices, and even less of an indication that any of its European allies will actually hold it to account. Continue reading

National Security State, USA

EU, fascism, GCHQ, Germany, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, security, snowden, spying, surveillance
July 10, 2013

The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe By Peter Schwarz

The right to privacy—a basic human right enshrined in the American and every European Constitution—and the associated guarantee of the confidentiality of the post and telecommunications are being ripped to shreds. The wiretaps are so obviously illegal that intelligence agencies in one country often delegate their activities to foreign partners in order to avoid overly… Continue reading

Europe, National Security State

bnd, class, EU, GCHQ, intelligence, NSA, police, privacy, security, snowden, surveillance, WSWS
July 10, 2013

More details emerge of the UK’s illegal mass spying By Robert Stevens

UK charity Privacy International has begun a legal case calling for the British government to end the use of data collected by the US National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) mass surveillance system, Prism. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

GCHQ, intelligence, Internet, NSA, prism, privacy, rights, secrecy, spying, surveillance, tempora, WSWS
July 9, 2013

Snowden confirms NSA created Stuxnet with Israeli aid

The Stuxnet virus that decimated Iranian nuclear facilities was created by the NSA and co-written by Israel, Edward Snowden has confirmed. The whistleblower added the NSA has a web of foreign partners who pay “marginal attention to human rights.” Continue reading

National Security State, UK, USA

community, GCHQ, intelligence, Iran, Israel, Julian Assange, New York, NSA, privacy, rights, RT, snowden, stuxnet, tempora
July 4, 2013

UK parliament’s intelligence and security committee cancels questioning of UK spy agencies By Robert Stevens

The ISC, established by the Intelligence Services Act 1994, is tasked with overseeing the work of the intelligence services. It is composed of former ministers, appointed by the prime minister, in consultations with the Leader of the Opposition–the Labour Party. Its workings are kept secret and the prime minister filters its reports to Parliament. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

GCHQ, intelligence, MI6, NSA, parliament, security, spying, WSWS
July 3, 2013

GCHQ sells your information to big corporations

Journalist Steve Boggan had gate-crashed ‘Secret Work in an Open Society’, an invite only gathering organized by MI5’s then Director General Stephen Lander. Britain’s domestic security service, he found, was quietly offering to sell secrets to companies such as Rolls-Royce, BP, Ernst & Young, arms firm BAe Systems and to a bank since proven to… Continue reading

National Security State, UK

bank, corporations, GCHQ, intelligence, London, MI5, MI6, Open Society, prism, RT, USA
June 28, 2013

Surveillance and the Police State: Let Us Hold It to Account By Colin Todhunter

The elite, the oligarchs, the ruling class, the one percent – call it how you will. Yet it is we, the people, who are spied on and monitored by them for their good, to serve their interests and to feather their highly privileged and secretive world, a world built on the stolen wealth of both… Continue reading

National Security State, UK

Colin Todhunter, database state, democracy, Establishment, GCHQ, Global Research, intelligence, police, surveillance
June 28, 2013

NSA is All about Preserving the Power of the Aristocracy in a Dystopian World By Wayne MADSEN

The National Security Agency (NSA) has launched yet another high-powered charm offensive. The world’s largest communications and cyber-warfare intelligence agency insists that it unprecedented surveillance infrastructure exists merely to protect U.S. national security from terrorists and foreign intelligence agents. In fact, the NSA conducts massive political and economic intelligence gathering in order to preserve the… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

GCHQ, intelligence, MADSEN, NSA, Obama, security, Strategic Culture, surveillance, United States
June 27, 2013

US and British Global Spying – the Poachers Appoint Themselves as Gamekeepers By Finian CUNNINGHAM

The poachers – caught in the act – are now appointing themselves as the gamekeepers. Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden has performed an immense service to international public interest and democratic rights by exposing the «industrial scale» illegal spyingoperations of the American and British governments. Continue reading

National Security State, UK, USA

Booz Allen, China, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, London, Moscow, police, prism, privacy, rights, snowden, spying, Strategic Culture, surveillance, WikiLeaks
June 27, 2013

Video: SOCMINT’S reading everything you write online

Apparently GCHQ are grabbing this post, along with everything else digital. A police unit acronym SOCMINT, or Social Media Intelligence Task Force, or something like that, is monitoring the Web looking for radical ideas. Continue reading

National Security State, UK, Videos

GCHQ, police, radical, RT, surveillance, Video
June 27, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE

27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE 1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications Continue reading

Europe, Spies-R-Us, Statewatch

EU, GCHQ, history, intelligence, NSA, Statewatch
June 22, 2013

Britain’s Surveillance State: The Secret Ops of the “Government Communications Headquarters” (GCHQ) By Colin Todhunter

For many people, personal privacy vs widespread surveillance has been a major issue for decades. However, some thought it might have been happening but chose to downplay it. Others didn’t want to know and just didn’t care. Edward Snowden’s recent revelations indicate it is happening and that we should all care. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

Booz Allen, Colin Todhunter, data mining, database state, GCHQ, Global Research, Government, intelligence, James Bamford, James Clapper, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint
June 22, 2013

NSA Whistleblower: NSA Illegally Spied On General Petraeus and Other Generals, Supreme Court Justice Alito and All of the Other Supreme Court Justices, the White House Spokesman, and Many Other Top Officials

As we reported yesterday, NSA whistleblower Russel Tice – a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping – told Peter B. Collins on Boiling Frogs Post (the website of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds) that the NSA spied on and targeted for… Continue reading

National Security State, USA

blackmail, data mining, database state, GCHQ, New York, NSA, Petraeus, Sibel Edmonds, spying, Supreme Court, surveillance, Whistleblower, White House
June 22, 2013

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications

The sheer scale of the agency’s ambition is reflected in the titles of its two principal components: Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation, aimed at scooping up as much online and telephone traffic as possible. This is all being carried out without any form of public acknowledgement or debate. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

crime, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, Internet, NSA, security, spying, surveillance
June 22, 2013

Communications of millions subject to US-UK spying By Eric London

The leak is the latest in a series that have left the US and UK governments scurrying to cover up their deeply antidemocratic maneuvers with scripted lies. It comes one day after the release of secret FISA Court documents showing the NSA has almost complete latitude to monitor the communications of US residents Continue reading

National Security State, UK

Booz Allen, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, Internet, James Bamford, James Clapper, London, Narus, NSA, prism, snowden, spying, surveillance, Verint, WSWS
June 21, 2013

British government moves to censor media coverage of spying operations By Robert Stevens

D-Notices are official requests to news editors not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects on the grounds of “national security”. They are issued by the Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory Committee, which operates between government departments dealing with intelligence and national security, and the media. Continue reading

Media, National Security State, UK

BBC, censorship, d-notice, G8, GCHQ, intelligence, media coverage, NSA, security, spying, the guardian, WSWS
June 12, 2013

Lack of Intelligence By Craig Murray

I am astonished that still none of our pusillanimous media has published the simple fact that NSA and GCHQ share ALL intelligence reports with each other. Every member of the House of Commons who has ever been in the most junior ministerial position knows this Continue reading

National Security Archive, UK

Craig Murray, data mining, database state, GCHQ, intelligence, Narus, NSA, prism, secrecy, snowden, spying, surveillance, United States, Verint
June 12, 2013

GCHQ- The UK Government Communications Headquarters By Steve Jones

GCHQ is the United Kingdom’s (and the European Union’s) premiere electronic eavesdropping facility. The jargon used to define this activity is known as signals and communications intelligence, that is, the collection, sifting, decryption, analysis and linguistic deciphering of international electronic communications. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

GCHQ, Global Research, Government, intelligence, NSA, police, SOURCES, spying, surveillance, United Kingdom, USA
June 10, 2013

The Omniscient State By Craig Murray

It is not whether the individual had done anything wrong: it is whether the state has done anything wrong. Hague’s plea for the omniscient state is chilling: if you have done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to worry about. So it is alright for the state to eavesdrop all our social interactions, to follow… Continue reading

Liberties

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