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Why should you care about Government surveillance?

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On his first day as Director of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan wrote in the Financial Times that GCHQ should have more rights to access your communications and information.*

*People do not want social media platforms to facilitate murderhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c89b6c58-6342-11e4-8a63-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3IDW6gOsK

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In the same article, the newspaper ran a poll asking “Should online privacy be sacrificed to combat terrorism?”

Yes 32.11% No 67.89%

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But we’re not even aware of all the ways government currently monitors our online activities.

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The information released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden exposed an unprecedented level of government surveillance.

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The new film CITIZENFOUR highlights just how significant this information is, and the lengths journalists went to in order to make it public.

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Here are some examples of just how government monitors your online activities - all of which were brought to light by Snowden’s revelations.

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OPTIC NERVE

GCHQ programe that collects still images of Yahoo webchats. In a 6-month period it collected 1.8 million images. It saves 1 photo every 5 minutes, 3% - 11% of which contains “undesirable nudity”.

* http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo

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Edgehill

GCHQ programme used to gain access to Gmail servers and unencrypt information. By 2015, GCHQ hoped to have cracked the codes used by 15 major internet companies and 300 VPNs.

*http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security

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World of Warcraft spying

GCHQ use World of Warcraft to spy on gamers, who according to their documents, amount to over 10 million users.

* https://www.eff.org/files/2013/12/09/20131209-nyt-nsa_games.pdf

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Squeaky Dolphin

Programme owned by GCHQ used to monitor and collect content from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in real-time. It can collect addresses from videos watched and other user information on a daily basis.*http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-how-the-nsa-infiltrates-computers-fotostrecke-105339-13.html

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Dishfire

Global text message collection database operated by the NSA and GCHQ. Collects 200 million text messages from across the world on a daily basis.

* http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/16/nsa-collects-millions-text-messages-daily-untargeted-global-sweep

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Series of programmes used to exploit smartphone appsNosey Smurf: Turns a phone’s mic onTracker Smurf: High-precision geolocationDreamy Smurf: Power managementParanoid Smurf: Hides presence of spyware

* http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/photo-gallery-how-the-nsa-infiltrates-computers-fotostrecke-105339-13.htm

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It’s enough to turn you off the internet forever.

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So protect yourself and if you want to learn more, go watch CITIZENFOUR in a cinema near youcitizenfourfilm.com/screenings