The Dutch government worked as possible to the intercepting metadata of 1.8 million calls in the Netherlands in december and January last year. That can be inferred from coverage of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
In a document which the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, a screenshot publishes, the Netherlands is mentioned in a list of nineteen countries with which the Us secret service share information. El Mundo mentions specifically that the Spanish secret service, intercepting metadata from phone calls ‘facilitated’, where it is in the center or the Spanish secret service, the metadata itself is intercepted and passed on to the Americans or that the only permission had been given. The document entitled ‘Sharing computer network operations cryptologic information with foreign partners’.
Because the Netherlands is in the same row, together with countries that previously have been associated with Boundless Informant, the tool that allows the NSA metadata of phone calls intercepted, it is obvious that also in the Netherlands a secret service like the AIVD has contributed to the interception of metadata.
Last week, the us Tweakers that last year, in a month’s time metadata of 1.8 million calls intercepted. The head of the NSA, Keith Alexander, spoke at a hearing this week that the NSA’s large scale metadata intercepts.
Minister Plasterk said earlier this week in a letter to parliament that if the NSA’s metadata wants to intercept of Dutch phone calls, this permission should ask the AIVD. Or that has happened, the minister has not confirmed or denied. The AIVD is in talks with the NSA about the interception activities.
With the metadata, such as information about who, when and with whom has called, the NSA social contacts in the mapping of persons into the NSA in the holes.
NSA document Snowden about cooperation of foreign secret services (source: El Mundo)