Topic: SECURITY - on August 23, 2013 at 4:33:00 PM CEST
UK’s secret Mid-East internet surveillance base is revealed in Edward Snowden leaks
Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies, The Independent has learnt.
The station is able to tap into and extract data from the underwater fibre-optic cables passing through the region.
The information is then processed for intelligence and passed to GCHQ in Cheltenham and shared with the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States. The Government claims the station is a key element in the West’s “war on terror” and provides a vital “early warning” system for potential attacks around the world.
independent.co.uk UK government now leaking documents about itself
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