Snowden-Enthüllungen: Alles Wichtige zum NSA-Skandal | ZEIT ONLINE
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Snowden Everything you need for NSA scandal
What data the NSA collects what is Prism and how to react monitorees? Recent developments and an overview of the Snowden revelations since June 2013
News - Stand 26.12.2013
In his Christmas message to the British TV station Channel 4 Edward Snowden calls for an end to the global mass surveillance. A child who is born today, no longer knew what privacy is, says Snowden in the video: "There will no longer know what privacy means to have a thought that was neither recorded nor analyzed This is a problem. because that privacy is important, the private lives helps us to determine who we are and who we want to be. "
The story of the scandal
In June 2013, the British newspaper The Guardian and the American Washington Post began secret documents to publish that they had received from the former NSA employee Edward Snowden. Snowden himself was in favor in the U.S. accused of spying and fled to Russia from exile.
The thousands of his stolen documents reveal a global network of espionage systems. They show that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the British Government Communications Headquarters (GHCQ) and its partner services want to monitor all forms of electronic communication. The most important facts at a glance:
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The supervisor: In the center of the scandal, the NSA and British intelligence agency GCHQ stand. Among the closest partners of the USA and the UK include Canada , Australia and New Zealand, together they form the Five Eyes.
Other countries are working with these five together, including Germany , Sweden, France, Belgium and Japan and South Korea. They all benefit from the insights in particular the Five Eyes and provide them with their own information.
The Watched:
In Germany, the NSA is the mobile phone of the Chancellor have monitored and possibly the whole of Berlin's government district. Similar allegations are also against the British.
For at least seven years, she collects the telephone connection data of all Americans . The permission granted the secret which meets Fisa court every three months again.
They also collect the motion data of mobile phones . Per day it will be five billion records, probably hundreds of millions of devices, their location monitored and followed them.
In Spain, the NSA has, according to media reports, 60 million traffic data collected solely between December 2012 and January 2013.
In France there were in the same period, the data of more than 70 million telephone connections . The NSA has contradicted the end of October 2013 two reports - there were the Spanish and French intelligence agencies that would have this data procured and handed over to the NSA. The data came from the alleged foreign intelligence. Similarly explains the Norwegian intelligence, why he has forwarded millions of telephone connection data to the NSA - it will be data of foreign compounds to help, for example in military operations. The journalist Glenn Greenwald, however, who is in possession of the Snowden documents, which holds for a false statement . The NSA had definitely procured in Norway millions of metadata.
In Belgium, the British intelligence agency GCHQ has apparently hacked into the computer of the provider Belgacom to its customers, the EU Parliament, the EU Commission and the European Council are.
In the messages, among others, France, Italy, Greece and EU missions in the U.S., the NSA has hidden bugs to listen to diplomats .
The Internet communication from the users all over the world will be monitored: The NSA gives up access to the user data and content on major U.S. providers - either more or less targeted and by court order as part of the Prism program or secretly under the Muscular Program . Eight major technology companies have also why early December stand against the NSA and called for a reform of the intelligence control .
U.S. President Barack Obama after Reuters data set to monitor the World Bank and the IMF by the NSA. This also means that the headquarters of the two institutions were once probably bugged - even if that has not been granted the U.S. government.
At the UN Climate Change Conference 2007 in Bali, the NSA and the Australian DSD intelligence to the Indonesian security authorities spied have to enter phone numbers.
The NSA monitors the OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) since 2008, the British GCHQ doing it since 2010. Both intelligence agencies have gained by illegal methods to access the computers in the Vienna headquarters of OPEC.
Also, membership in the Five-Eyes-Club does not protect against the trawl Monitor NSA: The U.S. intelligence agency may also data such as telephone numbers, e-mail or IP addresses of innocent British citizen store and analyze if these as "by-catch" incurred. The GCHQ know about it. In addition, the NSA reserves the right to spy on its citizens without the consent of the British.
Some Muslim preachers who could "radicalize" their followers, the NSA also has in view. The Secret Service monitors whether view, among other things, the suspects porn on the Internet or offensive chat with "young, inexperienced girl." This information should help to undermine the authority of the suspects, so they discredit. The investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has published in the Huffington Post documents that demonstrate such plans and real-life case examples.
At least in 2009, GCHQ and NSA also the then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister, German government buildings at home and abroad, the German authorities power, the EU competition commissioner, several African leaders and organizations such as UNICEF and Médecins du Monde monitored. The report Der Spiegel, the Guardian and the New York Times together, citing Snowden documents.
The objectives: on the one hand, the communication links and contents of millions of citizens are monitored. "You need the haystack to find the needle in it," NSA Director Keith Alexander describes the principle . The NSA argued that it analyzed these gigantic amounts of data to get terrorists and arms dealers on the ropes.
However, the NSA spying also targeted individual companies and leaders from, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel . It's the Americans not only to the fight against terrorism, but also to their own political and economic interests.
A goal for the coming years is to break commercial and other encryption systems - using technology or spies to be eingeschelust in business for encryption technology. This is from a "mission statement" for the period 2012-2016 shows that the New York Times has published.
Sources of information: Knowing who and when communicates with whom, helps the NSA to discover connections of suspects. Therefore, collects and analyzes data connection - telephone calls, text messages, e-mails or chats. This applies to both foreign and even calls within the U.S.. The latter is actually highly regulated by law, but the parliamentary monitoring the monitor works just not how even admit those who are responsible.
Probably for the same reason also has hundreds of millions of the NSA contact from the address books sucked out of e-mail accounts and instant messaging accounts worldwide.
The NSA also monitors the location data of mobile phones , reported the Washington Post. So the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of devices will be registered per day. With the data can be accurate motion profiles of the phone owners create and thus spy on their habits.
In part, the data are also supplied, for example by the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). He has data from its foreign intelligence forwarded as in Afghanistan and the Middle East to the U.S. counterparts, supposedly 500 million records alone in December 2012. Norway and France to pass custom data to the NSA.
Sweden in turn apparently monitors the Internet cable, run from Russia through the Baltic Sea on the Swedish territory , supplying the NSA with data on Russian targets.
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