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NSA, British spy agency secretly accessing German telcom data: Der Spiegel
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/13/nsa-british-spy-agency-secretly-accessing-german-telcom-data-der-spiegel/NSA, British spy agency secretly accessing German telcom data: Der Spiegel
Agence France-Presse
13 Sep 2014
The US National Security Agency and British intelligence services are able to secretly access data from telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and several other German operators, according to Der Spiegel weekly.
An NSA programme called “Treasure Map” gives the US agency and Britain’s electronic eavesdropping GCHQ near real-time information about the operators’ networks, right through to end users on computers, smartphones or tablets, Der Spiegel said in a report to appear in its Sunday edition.
It is the latest in a string of revelations based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Spiegel said the tracking programme, which it dubbed “the Google Earth of the Internet”, can be used to plan cyber attacks.
