Snowden spyware revelations : we need to unmask the five-eyed monster | Eric King | Comment is free

Dans l’original canadien, quelques précisions sur le CSEC.

New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto - Politics - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-snowden-docs-show-u-s-spied-during-g20-in-toronto-1.2442448

CSEC has roughly 2,000 employees and an annual budget of about $450 million. It will soon move into a new Ottawa headquarters costing taxpayers more than $1.2 billion, the most expensive federal government building ever constructed.

By comparison, the NSA is the largest intelligence agency in the U.S., with a budget of over $40 billion and employing about 40,000 people. It is currently building what is believed to be one of the largest and most powerful computers in the world.

CSEC is comparatively much smaller but has become a formidable and sophisticated surveillance outlet. Canadian eavesdroppers are also integral to the Five Eyes partnership around the world.

we need to unmask the five-eyed monster
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/snowden-spyware-five-eyed-monster-50000-networks-five-eyes-privacy

For more than 60 years, the secret patchwork of spying arrangements and intelligence-sharing agreements that makes up the Five Eyes alliance has remained obfuscated by the states that it benefits – Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.