Spain has become the latest major European country to learn that its citizens have had their phone calls intercepted by the US’s National Security Agency (NSA), according to new revelations from Edward Snowden published this morning.
According to reports in the newspaper El Mundo, the NSA secretly monitored 60 million Spanish calls in the space of a single month.
Though the contents of conversations were not recorded, US spies took details of the so-called metadata - the information on who, when and where each call was made.
Similar to news from France and Germany last week, these allegations also come from documents provided to journalists by fugitive NSA contractor Snowden.
Today’s El Mundo front page carried the name of Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who worked on that paper’s series of stories about the NSA’s mass surveillance schemes.
He teased the news yesterday, tweeting: “A new large country tomorrow morning will learn how many millions of its citizens have their communications data intercepted by the NSA.”
Read more: NSA 'tapped 60m Spanish phone calls' as country joins France and Germany in latest Snowden revelations - Europe - World - The Independent
According to reports in the newspaper El Mundo, the NSA secretly monitored 60 million Spanish calls in the space of a single month.
Though the contents of conversations were not recorded, US spies took details of the so-called metadata - the information on who, when and where each call was made.
Similar to news from France and Germany last week, these allegations also come from documents provided to journalists by fugitive NSA contractor Snowden.
Today’s El Mundo front page carried the name of Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist who worked on that paper’s series of stories about the NSA’s mass surveillance schemes.
He teased the news yesterday, tweeting: “A new large country tomorrow morning will learn how many millions of its citizens have their communications data intercepted by the NSA.”
Read more: NSA 'tapped 60m Spanish phone calls' as country joins France and Germany in latest Snowden revelations - Europe - World - The Independent
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