Geoff White
Dishfire: who knows what?
Dishfire “collects pretty much everything it can” and is “especially useful for untargeted and unwarranted UK numbers”. There are many unanswered questions. So who has said what so far?
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US drone war must be ‘brought into the light’
Kareem Khan’s brother and son were killed in a Pakistan drone strike in 2009. Now he is in the UK to meet MPs and tells Channel 4 News “most drone strikes are killing innocent people”.
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Three rounds on government over text message snooping
The mobile network Three has become the latest phone company to demand answers from the government over GCHQ’s use of a text message snooping system run by US intelligence.
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Geoff White
Why the row over spying is about human nature, not metadata
Are humans warlike or obedient at heart? Technology Producer Geoff White looks at two political theories through the prism of Prism and the spying debate of the last 12 months.
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Siobhan Kennedy
Third mobile company demands answers over Dishfire
As another telecoms company asks whether the data mining programme Dishfire has been harvesting information from its customers, questions over the role of British agents begin to mount.
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Sir David Omand: GCHQ data collection is ‘lawful’
Sir David Omand, the former head of GCHQ, says it is “perfectly lawful” for British intelligence to collect metadata from people’s text messages via the secret US database Dishfire.
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Revealed: UK and US spied on text messages of Brits
Exclusive: America’s spy agency created a secret system, Dishfire, to intercept almost 200m text messages a day – a system used by GCHQ to exploit a loophole allowing them to spy on British citizens.
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Britain ‘violated European spying rules’
British spy agencies violated European law when they accessed a secret American database that hoovered up millions of text messages around the world, a leading EU politician tells Channel 4 News.
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In from the cold: new Guy Burgess voice recording
Exclusive: a recording of the voice of Guy Burgess – the most colourful and notorious of the cold war spies – has come to light thanks to a freedom of information request to the FBI.
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Vodafone ‘shocked and surprised’ at UK and US spying
Vodafone’s head of privacy tells Channel 4 News the company will be “contacting the government… and challenging them” on interception of text messages.
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Obama to curb NSA spying on phone data
President Barack Obama says he will put a stop to the US intelligence agency’s mass storage of Americans’ phone records, and orders an end to indiscriminate spying on friendly foreign allies.
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Greenwald: NSA will still spy on millions
The man who helped to bring the Snowden leaks to the world’s attention – journalist Glenn Greenwald – is sceptical that Obama’s spying reforms will fundamentally change the NSA’s approach.
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What GCHQ knows about us – a timeline of revelations
The NSA is facing reform after outrage from lawmakers in the US. But what about Britains own state-sponsored spying? Channel 4 News revisits the revelations about GCHQ and the reaction.
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Greenwald: UK poses ‘primary threat’ to EU citizens’ privacy
Journalist Glenn Greenwald tells an EU inquiry that the UK’s collection of metadata is the “primary threat” to EU privacy, as the White House publishes a review of the NSA’s surveillance.
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Amnesty to sue UK intelligence over spying
Amnesty International is taking legal action against British security services, claiming that sensitive emails and calls have been illegally intercepted.
