Vodafone exposes secret worldwide network of government wiretaps (Click here to read more)
By Juliette Garside, The GuardianThursday, June 5, 2014 21:16 EDT
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Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'
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Vodafone, one of the world's largest mobile phone groups, has revealed the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen to all conversations on its networks, saying they are widely used in some of the 29 countries in which it operates in Europe and beyond.
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The company has broken its silence on government surveillance in order to push back against the increasingly widespread use of phone and broadband networks to spy on citizens, and will publish its first Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on Friday. At 40,000 words, it is the most comprehensive survey yet of how governments monitor the conversations and whereabouts of their people.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE)
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.[1]
Just exactly what part of this do you suppose Congress, the President and the Courts do not understand?
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