As the role of a well-connected group of British and US intelligence agents begins to emerge, new suspicions are growing about what hand they may have had in weaving the Russiagate story.
Social media exists atop computers developed by the Federal government, runs on the internet developed by the U.S. military, is transmitted through telecoms controlled by companies acting in concert with the Federal government and was partially funded by the CIA.
It was a bit over four years ago that journalist Glenn Greenwald reported that British ‘intelligence,’ GCHQ, had developed a program to spread politically targeted disinformation over the internet. The revelation came from a presentation made to the ‘
The decision has been called a ‘long overdue indictment’ of government’s bulk collection of citizens’ private information
In what rights campaigners heralded as a "significant" reproach to government overreach, a British court which oversees the nation's intelligence and clandestine services ruled Monday that mass surveillance by agencies—including the bulk collection of private data from unwitting citizens and residents—was unlawfully conducted for nearly two
Recent documents reveal U.K. spy agencies collect the majority of their data from everyday citizens and not crime suspects.
British spy agencies may have more private information about its citizens than one may think, thanks to the U.K’s fairly opaque rules surrounding their regulation. Recently disclosed documents reveal much about the British government’s contentious mass surveillance programs. Privacy International, an organization in London, received
Agencies privately concede that ‘intrusive’ practices can invade privacy and that data is gathered on people ‘unlikely to be of interest’
The director of GCHQ apologized to all those unfairly dismissed as a result of the archaic policies, which included a ban on LGBT people joining the agency until the 1990s.
Manipulating the results of online polls, artificially inflating pageview counts, spoofing email accounts — the U.K.’s secretive GCHQ can do it all, and maybe more.
In the year since Edward Snowden disclosed classified documents detailing the private dealings of the intelligence communities of the “Five Eyes” -- the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- and their covert surveillance of civilian electronic communications, the world has grown privy to the lengths that these
