GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

[ukhudshanskiy]

Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secret-world-communications-nsa