Report: UK security agency also gathering secrets through Prism

The United Kingdom's main security agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), is also working with the United States' Prism intelligence program to gather data on various internet companies, The Guardian reports. Documents given to the UK news outlet indicate that GCHQ was able to retrieve "personal material such as emails, photos and videos" from internet companies operating outside the UK, and the GCHQ employed 197 intelligence reports in 2012 alone.

Apparently the GCHQ's been working with the US Prism service since "at least June 2010," and it's unknown how that's impacted UK citizens in the past several years. Though the GCHQ didn't directly confirm the collaboration, the agency issued a statement to The Guardian stating it, "takes its obligations under the law very seriously."

The Prism system enables access to records held by the nine largest internet companies, from Apple and Google to Skype and even Engadget's parent company, AOL.

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Source: The Guardian

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/07/report-uk-prism-gchq/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget

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