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It’s extraordinary that free governments are demanding that security be weakened because the government might want to have access. This is the kind of thing we see out of Russia and China and Syria.

Bruce Schneier, leading security technologist. Schneier spoke to Democracy Now! about FBI and GCHQ efforts to secure access to encrypted communications to track criminals and terrorists. Watch the discussion at democracynow.org.

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GCHQ has really acquired a huge amount of information that will make bulk surveillance of telephone communications very, very easy.

Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, joins Democracy Now! to discuss a new report by The Intercept on how the NSA and its British counterpart, GCHQ, hacked into the network of the world’s largest SIM card manufacturer to steal encryption keys that protect the privacy of cellphone users. Watch the interview here.

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“If you were using a webcam to have a chat, it just grabbed images from it as you did it. This is everyone. This is you, me, Americans, Brits. Everyone can get caught in this,” explains investigative reporter James Ball on Democracy Now!... — “If you were using a webcam to have a chat, it just grabbed images from it as you did it. **This is everyone.** This is you, me, Americans, Brits. **Everyone can get caught in this**,” explains investigative reporter James Ball on Democracy Now! today.
Millions of Yahoo webcam users may have had still images from their video chats intercepted and stored by British spy agency, GCHQ, with help from the NSA.

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