Global surveillance | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance


00:00:57 1 Historical background
00:07:43 2 Snowden's disclosures
00:08:09 2.1 By category
00:08:30 3 Purposes
00:11:09 4 Targets and methods
00:11:19 4.1 Collection of metadata and other content
00:12:20 4.2 Contact chaining
00:13:43 4.3 Data transfer
00:14:46 4.4 Financial payments monitoring
00:15:14 4.5 Mobile phone location tracking
00:16:46 4.6 Infiltration of smartphones
00:18:10 4.7 Infiltration of commercial data centers
00:19:15 4.8 Infiltration of anonymous networks
00:20:07 4.9 Monitoring of hotel reservation systems
00:20:50 4.10 Virtual reality surveillance
00:21:31 5 Political espionage
00:23:42 6 International cooperation
00:27:43 6.1 Australia
00:29:09 6.2 Canada
00:30:16 6.3 Denmark
00:30:55 6.4 France
00:31:58 6.5 Germany
00:34:04 6.6 Israel
00:35:38 6.7 Japan
00:36:04 6.8 Libya
00:36:39 6.9 Netherlands
00:37:22 6.10 Norway
00:39:29 6.11 Singapore
00:40:48 6.12 Spain
00:41:11 6.13 Sweden
00:42:03 6.14 Switzerland
00:43:12 6.15 United Kingdom
00:43:37 6.16 United States
00:45:41 7 Commercial cooperation
00:46:17 7.1 AT&amp;T
00:46:48 7.2 Booz Allen Hamilton
00:47:33 7.3 British Telecommunications
00:48:02 7.4 Microsoft
00:48:38 7.5 Orange S.A.
00:49:02 7.6 RSA Security
00:49:24 7.7 Stratfor
00:49:57 7.8 Vodafone
00:50:24 7.9 In-Q-Tel
00:50:48 7.10 Palantir Technologies
00:51:21 8 Surveillance evasion
00:51:41 8.1 North Korea
00:52:02 8.2 Iran
00:52:35 8.3 Libya
00:52:53 9 Impact
00:54:06 10 Gallery
00:54:15 11 See also



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Global surveillance refers to the mass surveillance of entire populations across national borders. Its roots can be traced back to the middle of the 20th century when the UKUSA Agreement was jointly enacted by the United Kingdom and the United States, which later expanded to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to create the present Five Eyes alliance. The alliance developed cooperation arrangements with several "third-party" nations. Eventually, this resulted in the establishment of a global surveillance network, code-named "ECHELON" (1971).Its existence, however, was not widely acknowledged by governments and the mainstream media until the global surveillance disclosures by Edward Snowden triggered a debate about the right to privacy in the Digital Age.