GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications | UK news | guardian.co.uk
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The Guardian understands that a total of 850,000 #NSA employees and US private contractors with top secret clearance had access to #GCHQ databases.
The documents reveal that by last year GCHQ was handling 600m “telephone events” each day, had tapped more than 200 fibre-optic cables and was able to process data from at least 46 of them at a time.