Gary Gibbon
Spies come in from the cold
In an unprecedented televised evidence session, intelligence chiefs say the Edward Snowden leaks will make it “far, far harder” to detect terrorist plots in years to come.
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Why the US might be spying on you
In the modern world of email and social networking, your connections mean that you could be more closely linked to terror suspects than you thought – which means you might be a target for US spies.
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Documents show Blair government let US spy on Britons
Exclusive: Tony Blair’s government allowed America to store and analyse the email, mobile phone and internet records of potentially millions of innocent Britons, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Gary Gibbon
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Terrorists are ‘rubbing their hands with glee’
The heads of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ says media coverage of former US spy Edward Snowden’s leaks have made their jobs harder.
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Simon Israel
David Miranda battles detention laws – while victory is won elsewhere
While all eyes were on David Miranda’s case, a small victory took place down the corridor in the Royal Courts of Justice over the schedule 7 powers, for someone of considerably less high profile.
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Tom Clarke
Spying, the seaside, sub-sea cables – and Rudyard Kipling
I’m down in Bude, in Cornwall, trying to find out what people think of the local GCHQ outpost’s spying on transatlantic data traffic.
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Never mind the spies: the security gaps inside your phone
Our security agencies are feeling the heat amid revelations about the extent of their surveillance programmes. But as the Data Baby project can reveal, spying is now cheap and relatively easy…
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NSA and GCHQ accused of hacking Google and Yahoo
New claims the NSA secretly “copied data flows” between Yahoo and Google are denied by the US intelligence agency.
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Obama considers review of NSA spying on allies
Barack Obama says he wants to “review” the NSA’s spying operations, after the chair of the Senate intelligence committee said she was “totally opposed” to US spying on foreign allies.
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US may have bugged Merkel for more than 10 years
Reports suggest the NSA may have been bugging German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone for more than ten years, as her government pushes for “complete information” from the US.
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Cameron attacks ‘la-di-la, airy-fairy’ critics of spying
David Cameron accuses newspapers who make public the techniques used by spies, of “helping our enemies” and making it more difficult to maintain national safety.
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Geoff White
How whistleblowing went mainstream
A few years back it would have been a no-brainer for Edward Snowden that WikiLeaks was the right forum for his expose – but it’s no longer the destination for whistleblowers.
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‘Someone should be watching Big Brother’ – GCHQ in court
In a week where the NSA admitted tracking mobile phone locations, the solicitor behind a legal challenge against GCHQ tells Channel 4 News surveillance is understandable – but we need to regulate it.
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Crack the code to work for GCHQ
Can you break the code to become a spy? GCHQ attempts a new recruitment drive to target top code breakers, mathematicians and “ethical hackers” as it tries to move beyond the Prism scandal.
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Home secretary briefed ahead of David Miranda’s detention
Home Secretary Theresa May says she was briefed ahead of the possible detention of David Miranda, the partner of a Guardian journalist, at Heathrow airport.
