The Guardian is reporting that the Government Communications Headquarters, the British version of the National Safety Agency, spied on diplomats and foreign officers throughout the G20 summit in 2009, a revelation coming twenty-four hours in advance of Monday’s G8 summit in London.

In step with paperwork uncovered by way of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and shown to The Guardian, officials “had their computers monitored and their cellphone calls intercepted on the directions of their British govt hosts,” and “some delegates had been tricked into the use of internet cafes which had been set up by using British intelligence businesses to learn their e mail traffic.” It seems this surveillance used to be licensed by means of excessive-ranking officials in Gordon Brown’s govt, and that information won from them used to be disbursed to British ministers.

Unlike the up to date revelations about NSA surveillance, which ostensibly objectives terrorist plots, the British company was eavesdropping on officers for the needs of gaining an upper hand in diplomatic negotiations, with Turkey and South Africa targeted specifically.

In line with the Guardian, the subtle spying machine incorporated the next:

• Setting up web cafes where they used an e-mail interception programme and key-logging instrument to spy on delegates’ use of computers;

• Penetrating the security on delegates’ BlackBerrys to monitor their e mail messages and phone calls;

• Providing 45 analysts with a reside round-the-clock abstract of who used to be phoning who at the summit;

• Concentrated on the Turkish finance minister and presumably 15 others in his birthday party;

• Receiving experiences from an NSA attempt to listen in on the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, as his telephone calls handed via satellite hyperlinks to Moscow.

Learn the entire article HERE.

[h/t The Guardian]

—
>> Observe Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) on Twitter