The Philippines is among the countries being secretly monitored by a telecommunications spying program of the US National Security Agency (NSA), as revealed by whistleblower and fugitive Edward Snowden. Online publication The Intercept, a platform releasing Snowden's leaks, alleged in a post on Tuesday (Manila time) that NSA's cutting-edge surveillance program MYSTIC collects "metadata" and content from mobile networks in the Caribbean, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines and another unnamed country. "All told, the NSA is using MYSTIC to gather personal data on mobile calls placed in countries with a combined population of more than 250 million people," The Intercept writers Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras said in the report. Metadata are information revealing message or call's time stamp, source and destination--information collected by MYSTIC that may be authorized by the host country and even by the telecommunications firms. The program also offers "near real-time, complete access to the additional target country's GSM networks," according to the document leaked by Snowden. Another classified document, provided by Snowden, provides a NSA Special Source Operations' description of MYSTIC as a "program for embedded collection systems overtly installed on target networks predominantly for collection and processing of wireless/mobile communications networks." There is no indication whether MYSTIC also intercepts phone calls and voice data in the Philippines, but it does pull text messaging data. The Intercept said it asked NSA to comment, but it only said it does not collect foreign intelligence in an arbitrary and unconstrained way as it follows protocols to protect people's privacy. Philippine laws prohibit wire tapping and related violations not authorized by all parties concerned.
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據(jù)《菲律賓星報(bào)》5月20日?qǐng)?bào)道,美國(guó)“棱鏡門”揭秘者愛德華?斯諾登披露的文件顯示,稱菲律賓也在美國(guó)安局秘密監(jiān)控的國(guó)家之列。 刊登斯諾登泄密文件的在線網(wǎng)站The Intercept于馬尼拉時(shí)間20日發(fā)文稱,NSA代號(hào)為“神秘”(MYSTIC)的監(jiān)控項(xiàng)目搜集加勒比地區(qū)、墨西哥、肯尼亞、菲律賓和另一個(gè)國(guó)家移動(dòng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)的“元數(shù)據(jù)”。 文章稱,NSA用“神秘”項(xiàng)目搜集的個(gè)人移動(dòng)電話數(shù)據(jù)涉及不同國(guó)家的2.5億多人。該文作者之一格倫?格林沃爾德曾依據(jù)斯諾登提供的材料發(fā)表多篇文章揭露美國(guó)監(jiān)視項(xiàng)目。 所謂元數(shù)據(jù),是指電話或者短信的時(shí)間、來源和接收者等信息。美國(guó)情報(bào)界曾在2013年的預(yù)算方案提出出資成立“神秘”項(xiàng)目,稱該項(xiàng)目有能力獲取上述國(guó)家的全面元數(shù)據(jù)信息,還可近乎實(shí)時(shí)監(jiān)控一些國(guó)家的全球移動(dòng)通信系統(tǒng)(GSM)網(wǎng)絡(luò)。 斯諾登提供的另一份文件稱,“神秘”項(xiàng)目可公開在目標(biāo)網(wǎng)絡(luò)安裝嵌入式采集系統(tǒng),搜集和處理無線電話/手機(jī)通訊網(wǎng)絡(luò)的信息,公開的說法是為電信公司提供合法商業(yè)服務(wù)。 尚不知曉“神秘”項(xiàng)目是否還攔截了菲律賓人的電話和語音數(shù)據(jù),但一份文件顯示,搜集短信數(shù)據(jù)是確鑿的。 對(duì)于The Intercept的采訪,美國(guó)國(guó)家安全局只表示,該機(jī)構(gòu)沒有以任意和無約束的方式搜集國(guó)外情報(bào),并恪守保護(hù)個(gè)人隱私。巴哈馬,墨西哥、肯尼亞和菲律賓方面均未回應(yīng)。菲律賓法律禁止在未經(jīng)當(dāng)事各方授權(quán)的情況下執(zhí)行竊聽行為。 (譯者 聞竹 編輯 王輝) 掃一掃,關(guān)注微博微信
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