The allegations are the latest in a raft of damaging revelations flowing from Snowden's document cache, which has exposed the depth of Anglo-American operations to gain access to vast quantities of email and telecommunications traffic across the globe.
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart have apparently tapped the fiber-optic cables connecting Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and are copying vast amounts of email and other information, according to accounts of documents leaked by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden.
This group of hackers released a vast trove of email addresses, passwords and credit card information belonging to subscribers of the US intelligence company Stratfor – and the hangover has carried on into the new year, with the release of MoD and Nato officials' details.
The vast majority used email and Skype, which increased the frequency of contact between supervisors and students creating a more intense relationship.
They stay twice as long as even users of Yahoo's vast network of email, content, and more.
Not all emails are created equal, and the vast majority of emails do not require an immediate response.
I think there is a perfectly reasonable argument for saying [that] if the human eye is not reading people's emails we do have to extract that from this vast number of emails, the tiny number that relate to terrorist plots..
The trick the reason I have roughly 400,000 unread emails and am still alive is that you can ignore the vast majority of emails without dying or getting fired or whatever.
XKeyscore An NSA program that allows analysts to search vast databases of emails, online chats and browsing histories of millions of individuals, with no prior authorisation.
Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies, The Independent has learnt.
