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Monitoring the Public? Thanks to Snowden and Co, This is Just the Beginning, says JAMES SLACK

Daily Mail UK, 14 July 2014





A huge hole was blown in the UK’s intelligence gathering capabilities by the Guardian newspaper’s Ed Snowden (above) revelations – which exposed a raft of sensitive techniques to terrorists


The key question for the public is: does this new legislation give the spies more power to track what I’m doing on my mobile phone?
The answer – for now at least – is no. It simply preserves capabilities they were first handed in the wake of the July 7 and Madrid bombings almost ten years ago.

Under a 2006 EU directive, police and the security services have been able to access a treasure trove of communications data collected and stored by mobile phone and internet companies. This includes information on who you call, when, for how long and roughly where you were at the time.
It is used for checking alibis, tracing kidnap victims and – in the case of terrorists – identifying and tracking plots.

This year, in a case brought against the Irish Government, the European Court of Justice ruled the directive was a breach of privacy – paving the way for members of the public to potentially sue communications firms who continued to store the data.
The response of the phone companies was to inform the UK Government that, if they did not clarify the law, they would start destroying phone records and other important information.
Some overseas-based companies went further: refusing to co-operate on the issue of intercept warrants, which are often used by the security services in terrorism cases and, unlike the communications data, include details of what a person is actually saying.

Security officials were clear that, if their existing powers were not maintained, they would lose track of plotters and lives would be lost.

The result is yesterday’s emergency legislation, which gives legality under British law to the powers originally included in the 2006 EU directive.

The Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill also makes it clear to companies based overseas, such as Yahoo, that if they wish to provide services in the UK, they must comply with intercept warrants. This, however, is by no means the end of the debate.

Security officials and the Home Office would have liked the Bill to go much further but could not get approval from the Liberal Democrats.




The new snooping legislation preserves capabilities they were first handed in the wake of the July 7 (above) and Madrid bombings almost ten years ago

They remain determined to amass new powers to monitor the public’s internet use, such as their visits to Facebook and use of apps.
In a speech last month, Theresa May said the powers used to defeat Britain’s enemies were not keeping up with new technology and this ‘loss of capability’ was the ‘great danger we face’.
She added: ‘We are in danger of making the internet an ungoverned, ungovernable space, a haven for terrorism and criminality.’

On top of this, there is the huge hole blown in the UK’s intelligence gathering capabilities by the Guardian newspaper’s Snowden revelations – which exposed a raft of sensitive techniques to terrorists.

For this reason it is inevitable that, after the General Election, the issue of a new ‘snoopers’ charter’ will immediately be back on the agenda.
Communications data has been used in 95 per cent of all serious organised crime cases handled by the CPS and every major MI5 counter-terrorism investigation over the past decade.


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CIA Station Chief Expelled in Berlin Spy Row: Germany Orders Expulsion in Response to Two Cases of Alleged Spying
  • Top U.S. intelligence official in Germany has been told to leave after Germans were frustrated by lack of American response to spying scandal

Germany has ratcheted up its row with America over CIA spying in the country with the immediate expulsion of the agency’s Berlin chief.

The dramatic rebuke to Washington comes after Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND, uncovered two cases of alleged American spying in a week.
The U.S. official was told to leave the country in a public signal of Angela Merkel’s fury over US spying on Germany which in the past has included repeated snooping on her own mobile phone.

A NATO ally expelling the spy chief of a friendly country is an extraordinary move but Mrs. Merkel has public opinion behind her. New polls show that many Germans want increased independence from America because of its snooping programme.




German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for 'greater trust' between the U.S. and her nation - code for demanding Americans stop spying on the NATO ally



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'The representative of the US intelligence services at the United States embassy has been asked to leave Germany,' a German government spokesman said.
'The request occurred against the backdrop of the ongoing investigation by federal prosecutors as well as the questions that were posed months ago about the activities of US intelligence agencies in Germany.'


The move came a day after Berlin police searched the home and office of a German military intelligence official alleged to have been spying for America.

The suspect is a foreign country specialist in the German defence ministry’s political department and has not yet been charged.
German military intelligence alerted prosecutors after the suspect was found to have 'met suspiciously often with US contacts', according to Spiegel Magazine.

A week ago a German intelligence agent was arrested after handing over German secrets to the US in exchange for cash.The 31-year-old employee of the BND stands accused of selling 218 top secret German intelligence documents he downloaded on to a USB stick for 25,000 pounds.

Last year documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former NSA employee, revealed that the agency had been monitoring Mrs Merkel’s mobile phone.




The unnamed intelligence official works at the U.S. embassy in Berlin (pictured). Germany has asked the official leave the country


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