Global surveillance disclosures | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:04:49 1 Background
00:06:35 1.1 Global surveillance
00:07:17 1.2 Disclosures
00:09:03 1.3 Historical context
00:11:24 2 Timeline
00:11:53 2.1 2013
00:12:02 2.1.1 May
00:12:34 2.1.2 June
00:18:20 2.1.3 July
00:25:12 2.1.4 August
00:33:17 2.1.5 September
00:39:19 2.1.6 October
00:48:07 2.1.7 November
00:55:49 2.1.8 December
01:10:12 2.2 2014
01:10:20 2.2.1 January
01:18:23 2.2.2 February
01:24:30 2.2.3 March
01:33:08 2.2.4 April
01:33:31 2.2.5 May
01:35:18 2.2.6 June
01:39:01 2.2.7 July
01:41:27 2.2.8 August
01:42:11 2.3 2015
01:42:20 2.3.1 February
01:43:04 2.3.2 March
01:43:28 2.3.3 April
01:44:30 2.3.4 September
01:45:10 2.4 2016
01:45:19 2.4.1 January
01:45:35 2.4.2 August
01:46:02 2.5 2017
01:46:17 2.6 2018
01:46:26 3 Reaction
01:46:34 3.1 Reactions of citizens
01:47:34 3.2 Reactions of political leaders
01:47:44 3.2.1 United States
01:48:20 3.2.2 United Kingdom
01:49:18 3.2.3 Australia
01:50:11 3.2.4 Germany
01:51:39 3.2.5 Sweden
01:52:15 3.2.6 Netherlands
01:52:43 3.2.7 Denmark
01:53:22 3.3 Review of intelligence agencies
01:54:09 3.4 Criticism and Alternative Views
01:57:35 4 Gallery
01:57:44 5 Comparison with other leaks
01:57:54 6 See also



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Ongoing news reports in the international media have revealed operational details about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners' global surveillance of both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens. The reports mostly emanate from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, which he obtained whilst working for Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest contractors for defense and intelligence in the United States. In addition to a trove of U.S. federal documents, Snowden's cache reportedly contains thousands of Australian, British and Canadian intelligence files that he had accessed via the exclusive "Five Eyes" network. In June 2013, the first of Snowden's documents were published simultaneously by The Washington Post and The Guardian, attracting considerable public attention. The disclosure continued throughout 2013, and a small portion of the estimated full cache of documents was later published by other media outlets worldwide, most notably The New York Times (United States), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Der Spiegel (Germany), O Globo (Brazil), Le Monde (France), L'espresso (Italy), NRC Handelsblad (the Netherlands), Dagbladet (Norway), El País (Spain), and Sveriges Television (Sweden).These media reports have shed light on the implications of several secret treaties signed by members of the UKUSA community in their efforts to implement global surveillance. For example, Der Spiegel revealed how the German Foreign Intelligence Service (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst; BND) transfers "massive amounts of intercepted data to the NSA", while Swedish Television revealed the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) provided the NSA with data from its cable collection, under a secret treaty signed in 1954 for bilateral cooperation on surveillance. Other security and intelligence agencies involved in the practice of global surveillance include those in Australia (ASD), Britain (GCHQ), Canada (CSEC), Denmark (PET), France (DGSE), Germany (BND), Italy (AISE), the Netherlands (AIVD), Norway (NIS), Spain (CNI), Switzerland (NDB), Singapore (SID) as well as Israel (ISNU), which receives raw, unfiltered data of U.S. citizens that is shared by the NSA.On June 14, 2013, United States prosecutors charged Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property. In late July 2013, he was granted a one-year temporary asylum by the Russian government, contributing to a deterioration ...