Saudi Arabia evacuates embassy staff from Yemen – The Guardian
The GuardianSaudi Arabia evacuates embassy staff from YemenThe GuardianRiyadh has suspended all work at its embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff “due to the deterioration of the security and political situation”, the state SPA news agency reported on Friday, citing an official at the foreign ministry. Germany and …and more »
Canadian man and American woman charged over foiled mass shooting plot – The Guardian
The GuardianCanadian man and American woman charged over foiled mass shooting plotThe GuardianSpeaking to the CBC, the mayor of Halifax, Mike Savage, said Halifax police, Geneva police, the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency and the US Department of Homeland Security were all involved in the operation. Savage told CBC: “Fortunately …and more »
New Snowden Leak Reveals GCHQ Collected Emails Of Journalists At NYT, WaPo, Guardian, BBC And Elsewhere (Techdirt)
It's eighteen months since Edward Snowden revealed his trove of secret NSA and GCHQ documents, but it seems that there are still some big surprises lurking there. Here's a pretty shocking story from the Guardian: _
> GCHQ's bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK's largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the agency's intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency.
_ Apparently, some 70,000 emails were slurped up in less than 10 minutes using one of GCHQ's taps on the fiber-optic cables entering and leaving the UK. Among those emails was correspondence between reporters and editors discussing stories, all of which was made available to cleared personnel on the GCHQ intranet. Although this was classed as a "test exercise", what the Guardian story goes on to reveal about GCHQ's view of journalists does not give any confidence it was an isolated incident: _
> One …
CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents
Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, as part of a sweeping bid to find extremist plots and suspects, CBC News has learned. Details of the Communications Security Establishment project dubbed "Levitation" are revealed in a document obtained by U.S. Whistleblower Edward Snowden and recently released to …