Vodafone is one of the biggest cell phone companies in the world. I don’t know if it was out of force or out of respect, but they gave it’s customers a huge revelation.
They warned of secret wires allowing governments to listen to customer’s conversations in 29 countries. The majority of these countries are in Europe. They say these wires are linked to other telecom companies to allow security agencies to listen in on peoples’ conversations. Sometimes they even track the customers locations. Surveillance can work like this because no warrants are required. The biggest culprits were Italy, Spain and Czech Republic.
How interesting these revelations come to light about a year after Edward Snowden first revealed the NSA and other government agencies were watching our computers and smartphones. I wonder why Vodafone remained quiet was over. Other top online/phone companies let us know where they stood not long afterwards. I look at nations most impacted by this. Spain has been dealing with terrorists on two fronts: from Islamic militants and the separatist Basque party. Italy has taken a major economic hit, and that has led to social problems. Even the US, when you look at what we’ve going through over the last 13 years, of course people are going to be more willing to give up privacy and governments are going to be more willing to take privacy. Do you think surveillance would be this prevalent if we were back in the1990s?