{"id":92056,"date":"2013-06-17T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=92056"},"modified":"2013-06-27T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T07:48:25","slug":"how-the-uk-spied-on-its-g20-allies-at-london-summits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/how-the-uk-spied-on-its-g20-allies-at-london-summits\/","title":{"rendered":"How The UK Spied On Its G20 Allies At London Summits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phones were monitored and fake internet cafes set up to gather information from allies in London in 2009, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2013\/jun\/16\/gchq-intercepted-communications-g20-summits\">the Guardian<\/a><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Documents uncovered by the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, reveal surveillance of G20 delegates&#8217; emails and BlackBerrys.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two\u00a0G20\u00a0summit 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/how-the-uk-spied-on-its-g20-allies-at-london-summits\/guardian-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92057\" title=\"Guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Guardian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Guardian.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Guardian-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":92057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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