British intelligence intercepted emails greatest journalists … – Virtual Poland

Among 70 thousand. E-mails seized in 2008. by the British intelligence agency GCHQ electronic correspondence journalists was the largest media organizations in the UK and the USA – gave “The Guardian”. In one of the secret documents relied upon by the “Guardian”, “journalists and reporters from all types of media” are referred to as “a potential threat to the security (of the country).”
 

E-mails journalists working for the BBC, Reuters, “The Guardian”, “The Sun”, “New York Times”, “Le Monde”, “Washington Post” and NBC were intercepted by GCHQ and shared in the internal network (intranet) of the organization – from the analysis of documents provided by a former associate of the American National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden. NSA works with GCHQ.
 

Mail journalist was among 70 thousand. emails captured in November 2008. as part of the test. It is not known whether this was intentional.
 

 Among the intercepted e-mails sent to and by journalists, were as well as ads on their work and exchanged messages with publishers.
 

In one of the secret documents relied upon by the “Guardian”, “journalists and reporters from all types of media” are referred to as “a potential threat to the security (of the country).” Called upon to pay special care to investigative journalists who specialize in defense. With them in the same category were terrorists and hackers.
 

More than 100 representatives of the British media, including all newspapers nationwide, signed an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, in which the monitoring of correspondence protest against journalists. After the recent terrorist attacks in France, the head of the British government renewed calls for increasing the competence of staff to conduct mass surveillance.
 

It is an interpretation of the law governing access to data intelligence citizens RIPA (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act). According to members of the press should be enforced new interpretation of existing rules, which protects journalists phone data if they are not suspected of committing a crime.
 

Currently, there is no such requirement. On the basis of RIPA police and security services to gain insight into the data does not need to call a national court’s permission, but only the consent of a designated employee of the same organization, not covered by the investigation.
 

(TEO, bart)

British intelligence intercepted emails greatest journalists … – Virtual Poland