Six governments tap Vodafone calls

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/06/us-vodafone-group-disclosure-idUSKBN0EH0UK20140606

by Varcht • 12 years ago

75 6 12 years ago

Six governments. Six! And each of them likely had to develop its own infrastructure for requesting, executing, processing, retaining, and searching the taps. Tapping as a Service, anyone? Is Palantir already on this?

ntumlin• 12 years ago

ShowHN: How I disrupted the phone tapping market with agile javascript.

ThinkBeat• 12 years ago

It no longer seems rational to believe that any electronic or digital means of communication is private.

kbenson• 12 years ago

It no longer seems rational to believe that any electronic or digital means of communication where you do not control the encryption is private.

It still may not be private in some cases, but at least it's rational at that point...

mpyne• 12 years ago

"In a small number of countries the law dictates that specific agencies and authorities must have direct access to an operator's network, bypassing any form of operational control over lawful interception on the part of the operator,"

Or in other words, what Greenwald and Snowden claimed PRISM did. I say "claimed" since PRISM doesn't actually do this.

Also the article specifically noted that the U.S. was not one of the 6, since Vodafone doesn't operate there. So that leaves Europe and the rest of the world...

dang• 12 years ago

A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857632.

Six governments tap Vodafone calls

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