GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the UK’s counterpart of the NSA, responsible for surveillance and intelligence gathering. They operate under the strictest secrecy, with much of their activities kept out of the public domain, and all of their employees having sworn the Official Secrets Act. But in 2011, Edward Snowden blew the lid on everything. From a hotel room in Hong Kong, and subsequently from a dacha in Moscow’s suburbs, he has shone a light on the activities of these intelligence agencies. For the first time ever, we understand how these far-reaching surveillance dragnets (like PRISM) impact us. Over the...
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