NSA

Den amerikanske efterretningstjeneste NSA holder sig ikke tilbage fra at indhente oplysninger om borgere og virksomheder i lande, hvis tjenester den samarbejder med om at tappe fiberkabler. Det viser både interne NSA-dokumenter og en tysk undersøgelse. Et åbent spørgsmål er nu, hvor langt Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste har tilladt amerikanerne at gå

’Third parties’ give NSA access to international fiber-optic cables, sharing massive amounts of phone and Internet data, new Snowden documents show. Germany and, by all accounts, Denmark, are among the partners in the NSA mass surveillance program codenamed RAMPART-A.

Denmark is among the elite of nations collaborating with the US National Security Agency, enjoying privileges that only Anglo-Saxon nations trump. This new piece of information is part of an analysis carried out by The Guardian based on thousand of Snowden documents. This raises the question: what exactly do we provide in exchange?

At the Copenhagen Climate Summit in 2009, the world's nations were supposed to reach an agreement that would protect future generations against catastrophic climate change. But not everyone was playing by the rules. A leaked document now reveals that the US employed the NSA, its signals intelligence agency, to intercept information about other countries' views on the climate negotiations before and during the summit. According to observers, the spying may have contributed to the Americans getting their way in the negotiations