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Pakistan: Intelligence agency sought to tap all communications traffic, documents reveal

Rice, Mathew
http://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/627

Publisher:  Privacy International
Date Written:  21/07/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested from Pakistani telecommunications providers for an analysis exercise. The United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had a store of SIM keys from Mobilink and Telenor networks, two of the country's biggest providers.

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