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GCHQ Tried To Track Web Visits of "Every Visible User On Internet"

Posted by timothy on from the even-that-one-guy dept.

An anonymous reader writes with Ars Technica's story on the relevations reported today by The Intercept that the UK's GCHQ has been tracking World Wide Web users since 2007, with an operation called "Karma Police" -- "a program that tracked Web browsing habits of people around the globe in what the agency itself billed as the 'world's biggest' Internet data-mining operation, intended to eventually track 'every visible user on the Internet.'"

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  1. Just think of the possibilities by kheldan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just think of the possibilities if they had used all those resources for something useful instead of poking their noses into things that were none of their business in the first place!

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