Government agencies are able to listen to phone conversations live and even track the location of citizens without warrants using secret cables connected directly to network equipment, admits Vodafone today
Government agencies are able to listen to phone conversations live and even track the location of citizens without warrants using secret cables connected directly to network equipment, admits Vodafone today.
The company said that secret wires have been connected to its network and those belonging to competitors, giving government agencies the ability to tap in to phone and broadband traffic. In many countries this is mandatory for all telecoms companies, it said.
Vodafone is today publishing its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report which will describe exactly how the governments it deals with are eavesdropping on citizens. It is calling for an end to the use of “direct access” eavesdropping and transparency on the number of warrants issued giving access to private data.
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6 comments:
why are we allowing this.. They work for us!
People used to be called Conspiracy Theorists when they made this claim. Now it's out in the open.
If you're surprised - check your brain and pulse!
nothing ever goes away... Someone may stop talking about it or even using it but it enver goes away...
And you will fooled to think they would even stop doing it after they paid all the money in the damn world to put it in place to control you... SO THINK ON THAT people who think we make this crap up...
Just how stupid are you to believe everything you're told without looking for yourself...
We here in the USA have a Fourth Amendment to OUR Constitution.Other countries do not go by OUR Constitution, as they have their own sets of rules to be governed by.
The grey area I think comes as our phone lines are shared with other countries around the world, other countries may be able to legally tap lines or collect data.
I think, though, although this collection may pick up some U.S. communications, and the rest is collected by us listening to incoming international comms, that at least comms bade by and between U.S. citizens should carry 4th A protection, and would carry a requirement to be destroyed.
However, nobody ever liked the chore of taking out the trash, and they still don't, so the info stays wherever it went.
And that's the problem.
If you've bought underpants in the past two years, you're being bugged, too. They put it in the elastic bands - every sound and move you make is transmitted to government agencies.
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