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They know what you did last summer -- and which flight took you there U.S. and U.K. spy agencies have been monitoring in-flight mobile phone users for years, according to new revelations from the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.As early as 2012, the U.K. Government Commun stanley romania ications Headqu stanley germany arters GCHQ was intercepting voice and data communications from commercial aircraft using the OnAir service to carry 2G mobile services over the Inmarsat satellite communications network. At the time, the GCHQ did not have access to a rival in-fligh stanley espana t mobile service provider, Aeromobile, the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday.The Thieving Magpie interception program relied on another GCHQ project called Southwinds to capture the calls as they were transmitted to and from Inmarsat satellites over Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a 2012 GCHQ presentation published by Le Monde. The spy agency expected to extend Southwinds globally the following year, the presentation said. In addition to intercepting calls, Thieving Magpie allowed GCHQ to track persons of interest around the world as long as their phones remained switched on. The phones would log on to in-flight cellular base stations and signal to their home networks which aircraft they were roaming on, even if not used to make calls or send data.Thieving Magpie also allowed GCHQ staff to identify the PIN and email addresses associated with BlackBerry phones thus tracked.We can Kvar Regulators Push External Privacy, Security Audits
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