Tempora
Tempora [ tɛmpɔra ] ( Latin for " The Hours") is the codename of a British intelligence operation of the Government Communications Headquarters ( GCHQ ) for monitoring the global telecommunications and Internet traffic.
- 3.1 United Kingdom
- 3.2 Germany
Spähprogramm tenses
Revelation
The findings on the tenses based program according to the newspaper The Guardian on information and data by Edward Snowden. A second, anonymous source with internal intelligence knowledge confirmed the existence of the program and emphasized the strict compliance with UK laws.
Snowden had previously been disclosed as the U.S. NSA whistleblower program PRISM. Again, based on the information presentation slides.
The Guardian reported on June 17, 2013, that the UK MoD various media ( including the BBC ) asked by a declared as confidential D -notice to self-censorship or non - disclosure of information, referring to the first publication of this notice in the D- 8. June 2013.
Four days later, on June 21, 2013, the Guardian Snowden published revelations about tenses, about two weeks after the first revelations of PRISM.
Method
After presentation of Snowden, the British spy program Tempora is richer than what PRISM and since about the end of 2011 operation. Tempora consists of the two components Mastering the Internet and Global Telecoms Agricole, one of which has been active since 2009.
According to the Guardian would be " the sheer scale of intelligence ambitions, by the very title of the two principal components clearly: Mastering the Internet ( The Internet dominate ) and Global Telecom exploitation ( exploitation of the global telecommunications) with the aim to siphon off as much online and telephone communication as possible. "
Under the program, Internet nodes and transatlantic data connections would from GCHQ tapped and the data for up to 30 days stored. The GCHQ peek of all the traffic that flows through the transatlantic fiber optic network to the UK or leaving the country. There have been tapped for the monitoring and analysis of data on 200 fiber connections and employed approximately 500 employees.
Monitors would be here e- mails, messages on social networks, and personal information of Internet users, as well as telephone calls.
International Cooperation
The two monitoring programs PRISM and tenses are as specified by Snowden to a common secret program called "Five Eyes" five nations UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The five countries operate according to a report of the European Parliament from 2001 for decades the Echelon project on the global surveillance of communications traffic routed via satellite telephone and data traffic, which was used according to this report and for industrial espionage.
Reactions
Great Britain
Apart from the revelation by the Guardian and subsequent articles dedicated to the British press the issue rather little attention. The British conservative politician Ben Wallace formulated in his column in The Times: " Spies spy" ( spies spy ) and bring so apparently the collective restraint to the point, what about the unveiling can be seen at many politicians and commentators in the UK and can mirror online speculate whether the cause of restraint in the D- Notice on June 7, 2013 was to be sought.
Germany
The German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger (FDP) called for a rapid reconnaissance, the " immediately in the European institutions " belong. ". The accusations against Britain sound like a nightmare à la Hollywood" Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU ), chairman of the Interior Committee in the Bundestag, the credibility of democracy is threatened: "As is the way, not only the data protection issue; This raises a further question, namely, whether the citizens do not lose confidence in the state and thus in our democracy, if they can not be completely certain that the intelligence make only what they actually should. " for criticizing also of the CDU - politician inside Clemens Binningerstrasse: " If the information is true that in social networks and providers large amounts of data are stored, which would not be consistent with our understanding of privacy. "
Ulrich Weinbrenner, Ministerial Counsellor, Federal Ministry of the Interior, said at a committee meeting of the Bundestag it was " common knowledge that there are programs of this kind of" give; "No one who is familiar with the matter, is basically saying that he can be surprised by the way the strategic reconnaissance. "
Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger has asked the British government in writing, to comment on the monitoring program " tenses ". On June 25, 2013 Spiegel Online published excerpts from the two identical letters in which the British Minister of Justice Christopher Grayling and the Home Secretary Theresa May were invited to the presentation of the legal bases for data collections.
The following day it was announced that the British government to answer the questions with the statement " As you know, take British governments generally not publicly comment on intelligence matters. " Rejected. The "appropriate channel " for such bilateral talks were " our intelligence services themselves "