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.