Wikileaks - The Spy Files

WikiLeaks: The Spy Files
http://wikileaks.org/The-Spyfiles

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for 'political opponents' are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries -- ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L'Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year. WikiLeaks has released 287 documents today, but the Spy Files project is ongoing and further information will be released this week and into next year.

International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. This industry is, in practice, unregulated. Intelligence agencies, military forces and police authorities are able to silently, and on mass, and secretly intercept calls and take over computers without the help or knowledge of the telecommunication providers. Users' physical location can be tracked if they are carrying a mobile phone, even if it is only on stand by.

But the WikiLeaks Spy Files are more than just about 'good Western countries' exporting to 'bad developing world countries'. Western companies are also selling a vast range of mass surveillance equipment to Western intelligence agencies. In traditional spy stories, intelligence agencies like MI5 bug the phone of one or two people of interest. In the last ten years systems for indiscriminate, mass surveillance have become the norm. Intelligence companies such as VASTech secretly sell equipment to permanently record the phone calls of entire nations. Others record the location of every mobile phone in a city, down to 50 meters. Systems to infect every Facebook user, or smart-phone owner of an entire population group are on the intelligence market.

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• Wikileaks
• Julian
• Assange
• Mass
• Surveillance
• Spying
• Government

[geoffdundee]

everytime you go on your pc your IP number is storing details not to mention being spied on by sites that gather info and are all linked such as google,msn,twitter,youtube,etc­,etc,etc,etc...everytime you add info about yourself "or not" to ANY website it is all being logged and collated and ADDED TO A BIGGER DATABASE that knows more about you than you do about yourself.....most folk are either so niave or cant comprehend that this is whats happening - oneday it will all be used against you!!!

[escapingplatoscave]

@geoffdundee Well, they themselves will be in for a surprise one day:

But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. - Matthew 12:36

[TheRequireMHD]

I always knew they where spying on us!