Phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009, the Guardian reports.
Documents uncovered by the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reveal surveillance of G20 delegates’ emails and BlackBerrys.
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic, the Guardian reports.
RuwanL / June 17, 2013
It time for Channel 4 to get activated!! Can channel 4 dig up more on this news report??
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Soni / June 19, 2013
hahaha…good call! This should be such a scoop for Channel 4 :)interestingly I am yet to see this story on BBC news as well.
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Yoosif / June 17, 2013
If and ever the Commen wealth conference materialize in hambantota, by coming November, similar senario might happen here as well. The Chinese guys swarming in the south in so many projects, propbably making arrangements right now to do the trics.
Therefore delegates be prepared to face the ugly seane.
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Rod Atkins / June 19, 2013
Yoosif, Absolutly right… Chinses are the most dangerous to deal with as they have no enemies and no friends, all about it business.. and make money anywahere and anyway they could. wrong nations this monkeys ended up with.. mm sometimes, Sri Lanka and China will match as Budhism is prevailing in both countries.
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