Global Telecoms Exploitation is reportedly a secret

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telephonic mass surveillance programme run by the British

signals intelligence Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of '' signals'', whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ...

and computer security agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Its existence was revealed along with its sister programme,

Mastering the Internet Mastering the Internet (MTI) is a mass surveillance project led by the British communications intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) budgeted at over £1 billion. According to reports in '' The Register'' and '' The Su ...

, in June 2013 as part of the global surveillance disclosures by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.Mastering the internet: how GCHQ set out to spy on the world wide web
'' The Guardian'', 21 Jun 2013. Retrieved Jul 2013.

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