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That sounds really interesting. Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?
by dilutedh2o 7y ago
That sounds really interesting.
Would you mind sharing a resource to learn more about how the UK spies on US citizens?
- truckerbill 7y agoThe snowden leaks touch on it
- andrewjrhill 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
- YinglingLight 7y agoGCHQ leader Robert Hannigan stepped down in Jan 2017. That name will be in future headlines.
- kelnage 7y agoAlthough if you look at the actual text on the UKUSA agreement document HW 80/2 [1], rather than the short synopsis from Wikipedia, it says very clearly that the UKUSA agreement covers only sharing of "foreign communications" where footnote 3 on page explicitly excludes communications of both the UK and the USA. 1. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11536912 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1153691...
- kick 7y agoOptic Nerve was one of these things. Basically, GCHQ or NSA hacked Yahoo!, GCHQ used that to collect stills for every single webcam feed on the platform (this! was! back! when! Yahoo! was! still! relevant!), including a lot of intimate photos, so on. Lots of fun stuff there! But that's a modern example. There are some pretty interesting ones. Here's a fun list of some celebrities that were the targets of a Five Eyes country and were spied on by multiple agencies as a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes_surveillance#List_of_notable_people_under_FVEY_surveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes...