‘The british were able to backdoor Us tech’

The British intelligence service GCHQ could according to a British newspaper at the backdoor that the U.s. intelligence service NSA had internet companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft. This could be the GCHQ, the British process for the retrieval of evidence around.

The existence of the so-called Prism-backdoor in several American technology companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, was Thursday night brought to light. The backdoor, which the American government the existence has been confirmed, evidenced not only by the U.s. government NSA to be used. Also the British intelligence service GCHQ would already be three year access to the data, claims The Guardian.

Due to the backdoor would the NSA and the GCHQ have direct access to inter alia, e-mails, videos, photos, and other documents located on the servers of the tech companies are. The British intelligence would be in the last year 197 reports have been prepared on the basis of information obtained through the Prism are collected; a growth of 137 percent compared to a year earlier. Such reports, according to The Guardian is usually also passed on to MI5 and MI6, British intelligence.

With the use of Prism would GCHQ, the official process to gather evidence around. There is often a lot of time over it, because the data of many of its citizens reside on the servers of American companies and therefore requests for legal assistance must be submitted. With the direct backdoor that was not necessary. GCHQ would not substantively on the matter to respond, and says only himself to keep the law.

The same document attesting to the involvement of GCHQ on the Prism turns out, according to The Guardian, that the American tech voluntarily participate in Prism. Themselves deny them that, give them to co-operate as required by law. According to the U.s. government, the U.s. house of representatives the Prism-program approved.