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countering these claims of mass surveillance, stating that "GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK."
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revealed that GCHQ gathers "raw" information (without filtering out the communications of British citizens) from the web as part of its "Mastering the Internet" programme.
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as the replacement for scrapped plans for a single central database. This involves thousands of
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in early May 2009, contracts with a total value of £200m had already been awarded to suppliers.
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signals from up to 200 fibre-optic cables at all physical points of entry into Great Britain.
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GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications
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provided specific details of financial contributions made by the U.S.
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Intelligence agency programmes revealed by Edward Snowden
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Index

mass surveillance
communications intelligence
Government Communications Headquarters
The Register
The Sunday Times
press release
2013 mass surveillance disclosures
Interception Modernisation Programme
The Register
The Sunday Times
DPI
black boxes
internet service providers
Cheltenham
Single Intelligence Account
Lockheed Martin
BAE Systems Detica
copying
John Adams
Communications Security Establishment
Parliament of Canada
Five Eyes
National Security Agency
John Adams
The Guardian
National Security Agency
Five Eyes
Western democracies
Edward Snowden
Communications Capabilities Development Programme

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