The Guardian reports that, according to the latest documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly funding its British counterpart, the GCHQ, over the past three years to “secure access to and influence over Britain’s top intelligence gathering programmes.” The documents reveal that the GCHQ is investing in efforts to gather personal information via mobile devices and wants the capability to “exploit any phone, anywhere, anytime.” The amount of personal data gleaned from the Internet by the agency has increased 7,000 percent in the last five years, the report states.
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