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 made available in the organization’s internal network – results the analysis of documents provided by the former co-worker of the American National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden. NSA works with GCHQ.
The correspondence of journalists was among 70 thousand. emails captured in November 2008. as part of the test. It is not known whether this was intentional. Among the messages sent to and by journalists, included both advertising and on their work e-mails exchanged 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). ” Also calls for special attention for investigative journalists who specialize in defense. With them in the same category were terrorists and hackers.
After the attacks in France, the British government calls for increasing the powers of services
More than 100 representatives of the British media, including all newspapers nationwide, have already 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.
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