Mobile giant's new legal trivia guide is this summer's beach read
By Simon Rockman, 6 Jun 2014Vodafone has today published a report detailing how cops, g-men and spies around the world tap into its systems – in some cases, directly hooking into communication networks without a warrant.
The dossier covers the 29 countries in which the mobile telco operates, including joint-ventures in Australia, Kenya and Fiji. The document [pdf] reveals the sorts of information agents can intercept, how people are tracked and snooped on in real-time, the steps (if any) that must be taken to request the data, and the laws allowing the g-men to do so.
The report carries a Creative Commons licence, and is published alongside figures disclosing how many demands for cooperation Voda has received from governments.
It comes just days after The Register exposed Vodafone Cable's involvement in a beyond-top-secret foreign surveillance base run by UK eavesdropping nerve-centre GCHQ.
Today, Vodafone's group privacy officer Stephen Deadman demanded an end to direct warrantless access to his company's communications systems by governments.
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