Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of...
by sjducb on Monday August 14, 2023 @03:32AM
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The thing you’re missing is that GCHQ spies on Americans (Foreigners from the UK perspective) using the NSA’s money, then it shares the findings from the spying with the NSA under an intelligence sharing agreement. GCHQ is mostly an outsourced wing of the NSA.
Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of...
by bemusedthrow75 on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:10AM
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> GCHQ is mostly an outsourced wing of the NSA.
Quite untrue but it does fit the default HN pattern of assumption about the UK.
American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug.
Re:'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of...
by belter on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:33AM
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"NSA pays £100m in secret funding for GCHQ" - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gch...
"Americans pay GCHQ £100m to spy for them, leaked NSA papers from Edward Snowden claim" - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/americans-pa...
I am just observing that the scope of GCHQ’s abilities are obviously limited compared to the NSA (unless they have the most cost-efficient IT infrastructure in the world, and we don’t do cost-efficient government IT here even now). The budget just isn’t there for them to operate the way the NSA does.