UK spy scheme said to be larger than Prism

Following the revelation in June 2013 of the US surveillance programme Prism, Deutsche Welle, EUObserver and other news sources reported on the 24 June 2013 that United Kingdom intelligence agency GCHQ have gone even further than the American National Security Agency (NSA) in intercepting data from the internet in a programme called Tempora

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ESO: Background Information: EU commission 'stood firm' on US data privacy http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-commission-stood-firm-on-us-data-privacy/

Deutsche Welle, 24.06.13: IT expert Constanze Kurz: Surveillance programs deeply 'ominous' http://dw.de/p/18unS

The Guardian, 22.06.13: GCHQ monitoring described as a 'catastrophe' by German politicians http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/22/gchq-spying-catastrophe-german-politicans

Spiegel Online International, 24.06.13: Global Surveillance: The Public Must Fight for its Right to Privacy http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/public-must-fight-against-prism-and-tempora-surveillance-a-907495.html

Deutsche Welle, 18.06.13: How much surveillance do we need? http://www.dw.de/how-much-surveillance-do-we-need/a-16888265

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