GCHQ booth

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GCHQ booth
Bude (Cornwall)
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GCHQ Bude is a British military base north of Bude and south of Morwenstow in Cornwall . It reports to the British secret service Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The systems are part of the ECHELON program.

In a dispatch of US embassies that Wikileaks was published by the TAT-14 submarine cables, which has a stopover in Bude, named as one of the few "critical infrastructure and key resources" of the US on foreign territory.

Records from former NSA employee Edward Snowden revealed that data from TAT-14 was believed to have been intercepted in the British coastal town of Bude . The cable is one of more than 200 fiber optic cables that the British secret service tapped and eavesdropped on as part of the secret Tempora program . The service obviously started directly at the cable nodes ( splicing ) at communications companies and therefore did not have to access the cable from outside. Two telephone companies, Vodafone and British Telecommunications (BT), are said to have helped the British eavesdropping service . In September 2018, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Internet surveillance by British intelligence was illegal as a violation of human rights.

In 2010 the National Security Agency paid the GCHQ £ 15.5 million for new developments at this facility.

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Web links

Commons : GCHQ Bude  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview Echelon from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg ( archive ( Memento from August 3, 2013 on WebCite ))
  2. ↑ Wikileaks.org ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ()  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wikileaks.org
  3. ^ Research by the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the NDR
  4. ^ Secret service taps into an important fiber optic cable TAT-14: British spy on German data from n-tv, June 24, 2013
  5. ↑ European Court of Justice: British Internet surveillance violates human rights Report of the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 13, 2018, accessed on September 13, 2018
  6. ^ Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger: Exclusive: NSA pays £ 100m in secret funding for GCHQ . In: The Guardian , August 1, 2013. 

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '8.7 "  N , 4 ° 33" 11.4 "  W.