| Author (Corporate) | Deutsche Welle |
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| Series Title | Article |
| Series Details | 31.10.13 |
| Publication Date | 30/10/2013 |
| Content Type | News |
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With the focus on the NSA in the United States, Europeans all too often ignore the threat in their midst: surveillance apparatus of the United Kingdom. Not only that, writes Thorsten Benner, government meddling is making life difficult for reporters in the UK. The writer says that Britain runs a massive surveillance apparatus affecting millions of citizens around Europe and the world through taps on fiber-optic cables, weakening of encryption, and compelling of Internet service providers to provide user data to the authorities. Thorsten Benner is director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. According to EUObserver on the 8 November 2013, the head of UK spy agency GCHQ, Iain Lobban, has said in the Parliament that leaks on mass-surveillance have made it harder to catch terrorists. |
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| Source Link | http://dw.de/p/1A9h9 |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, United Kingdom |
