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[[Global surveillance]] refers to the practice of [[globalization|globalized]] [[mass surveillance]] on entire populations across national borders.<ref>{{cite book|last=Webb|first=Maureen|title=Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World|year=2007|publisher=[[City Lights Books]]|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-0872864764|edition=1.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/illusionsofsecur0000webb}}</ref> Although its existence was first revealed in the 1970s and led legislators to attempt to curb domestic spying by the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA), it did not receive sustained public attention until the existence of '''[[ECHELON]]''' was revealed in the 1980s and confirmed in the 1990s.<ref name="echelon">{{cite news|last=Andrew Bomford|title=Echelon spy network revealed|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/503224.stm|publisher=BBC|date=3 November 1999 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}</ref> In 2013 it gained substantial worldwide media attention due to the [[global surveillance disclosure]] by [[Edward Snowden]].<ref name="gellman12wapo">{{cite news|last=Barton Gellman|author-link=Barton Gellman|title=Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his mission's accomplished|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html|date=24 December 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=25 December 2013|quote=Taken together, the revelations have brought to light a global surveillance system that cast off many of its historical restraints after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Secret legal authorities empowered the NSA to sweep in the telephone, Internet and location records of whole populations.}}</ref>

==History==
=== 1970s ===
In 1972 NSA analyst [[Perry Fellwock]] (under the pseudonym "Winslow Peck") introduced the readers of ''[[Ramparts (magazine)|Ramparts]]'' magazine to the NSA and the [[UKUSA Agreement]].<ref name="ramparts">{{cite news
|title=U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir
|work=Ramparts
|date=August 1972
|pages=35–50
|quote=The SIGINT community was defined by a TOP SECRET treaty signed in 1947. It was called the UKUSA treaty. The National Security Agency signed for the U.S. and became what's called First Party to the Treaty.}}</ref> In 1976, a separate article in ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine revealed the existence of the [[GCHQ]].<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/21/surveillance-secrecy-gchq
|title=Surveillance secrecy: the legacy of GCHQ's years under cover
|work=The Guardian
|date=2013-08-21
|access-date=2013-11-30
|author=Norton-Taylor, Richard
|quote=GCHQ's cover was first blown in 1976 by an article, The Eavesdroppers, published by the London magazine, Time Out.}}</ref>

=== 1980s–1990s ===
In 1982 [[James Bamford]]'s book about the NSA, ''[[The Puzzle Palace]]'', was first published. Bamford's second book, ''[[Body of Secrets|Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency]]'', was published two decades later.

In 1988 the '''[[ECHELON]]''' network was revealed by [[Margaret Newsham]], a [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]] employee. Newsham told a member of the U.S. Congress that telephone calls of [[Strom Thurmond]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] U.S. senator, were being collected by the NSA. Congressional investigators determined that "targeting of U.S. political figures would not occur by accident. But was designed into the system from the start."<ref>{{citation
|url=http://duncan.gn.apc.org/echelon-dc.htm
|last=Campbell
|first=Duncan
|author-link=Duncan Campbell (journalist)
|title=Somebody's Listening
|newspaper=New Statesman
|date=1988-08-12
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420093650/http://duncan.gn.apc.org/echelon-dc.htm
|archive-date=2013-04-20
|quote=The Congressional officials were first told of the Thurmond interception by a former employee of the Lockheed Space and Missiles Corporation, Margaret Newsham, who now lives in Sunnyvale, California.}}</ref>

By the late 1990s '''ECHELON''' was reportedly capable of monitoring up to 90% of all internet traffic.<ref name="bbcec"/> According to the [[BBC]] in May 2001, however, "The US Government still refused to admit that Echelon even exists."<ref name="bbcec">{{cite news|title=Q&A: What you need to know about Echelon|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/1357513.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=18 December 2013|date=29 May 2001}}</ref>

=== 2000s ===
[[File:North face south tower after plane strike 9-11.jpg|thumb|right|The [[September 11 attacks]] on the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] led to major reforms of U.S. intelligence agencies, and paved the way for the establishment of the [[Director of National Intelligence]] position.]]
In the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]], [[William Binney (U.S. intelligence official)|William Binney]], along with colleagues [[J. Kirke Wiebe]] and [[Edward Loomis]] and in cooperation with House staffer [[Diane Roark]], asked the U.S. Defense Department to investigate the NSA for allegedly wasting "millions and millions of dollars" on [[Trailblazer Project|Trailblazer]], a system intended to analyze data carried on communications networks such as the Internet. Binney was also publicly critical of the NSA for spying on U.S. citizens after the [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001 attacks]].<ref>{{cite journal |last= Shorrock |first= Tim |author-link= Tim Shorrock |title= The Untold Story: Obama's Crackdown on Whistleblowers: The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11 |journal= The Nation |date= April 15, 2013 |url= http://www.thenation.com/article/173521/obamas-crackdown-whistleblowers }}</ref> Binney claimed that the NSA had failed to uncover the 9/11 plot despite its massive interception of data.<ref name="Mayer">{{cite magazine |last= Mayer |first= Jane |author-link= Jane Mayer |title= The Secret Sharer: Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state? |magazine= The New Yorker |date= May 23, 2011 |url= http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer?currentPage=all }}</ref>

In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, [[MI5]] started collecting bulk telephone communications data in the United Kingdom (i.e. what telephone numbers called each other and when) and authorized the [[Home Secretary]] under the [[Telecommunications Act 1984]] instead of the [[Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000]], which would have brought independent oversight and regulation. This was kept secret until announced by the then Home Secretary in 2015.<ref name=bbc-20151105>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34731735 |title=How and why MI5 kept phone data spy programme secret |author=Gordon Corera |publisher=BBC |date=5 November 2015 |access-date=9 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=telegraph-20151104>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11976008/MI5-and-GCHQ-secretly-bulk-collecting-British-publics-phone-and-email-records-for-years-Theresa-May-reveals.html |title=MI5 and GCHQ secretly bulk collecting British public's phone and email records for years, Theresa May reveals |author=Tom Whitehead |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |date=4 November 2015 |access-date=9 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=thereg-20151109>{{cite news |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/09/hawktalk_wip/ |title=Here's the little-known legal loophole that permitted mass surveillance in the UK |newspaper=The Register |date=9 November 2015 |access-date=9 November 2015}}</ref>

On December 16, 2005, ''[[The New York Times]]'' published a report under the headline "[[George W. Bush|Bush]] Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts," which was co-written by [[Eric Lichtblau]] and the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning journalist [[James Risen]]. According to ''The Times'', the article's date of publication was delayed for a year (past the next presidential election cycle) because of alleged national security concerns.<ref name=nytimes2005>{{cite news|last=James Risen and Eric Lichtblau|title=Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html|work=The New York Times|date=December 16, 2005 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}</ref> [[Russ Tice]] was later revealed as a major source.
[[File:President Bush Speaking At Brooke Army Medical Center.jpg|thumb|left|On January 1, 2006, President Bush emphasized that "This is a limited program designed to prevent attacks on the United States of America. And I repeat, limited."<ref name="White House">{{cite web |date=January 1, 2006<!--, 12:05 PM CST -->|title=President Visits Troops at Brooke Army Medical Center|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060101.html |publisher=White House|access-date=August 15, 2013}}</ref>]]
In 2006, further details of the NSA's domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens was provided by ''[[USA Today]]''. The newspaper released a report on May 11, 2006 detailing the NSA's "massive database" of phone records collected from "tens of millions" of U.S. citizens. According to ''USA Today'', these phone records were provided by several telecom companies such as [[AT&T]], [[Verizon Communications|Verizon]], and [[BellSouth]].<ref name=USATODAY1>{{cite news|last=Leslie Cauley|title=NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm|work=[USA Today|date=May 11, 2006 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}</ref> AT&T technician [[Mark Klein]] was later revealed as major source, specifically of rooms at network control centers on the internet backbone intercepting and recording all traffic passing through. In 2008 the security analyst [[Babak Pasdar]] revealed the existence of the so-called "Quantico circuit" that he and his team had set up in 2003. The circuit provided the U.S. federal government with a [[Backdoor (computing)|backdoor]] into the network of an unnamed wireless provider, which was later independently identified as [[Verizon]].<ref name="Poulsen">{{cite magazine|last=Poulsen|first=Kevin|title=Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier—Congress Reacts|url=https://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/whistleblower-f/|magazine=Wired|access-date=August 14, 2013|date=March 6, 2008}}</ref>

In 2007, former [[Qwest]] CEO [[Joseph Nacchio]] alleged in court and provided supporting documentation that in February 2001 (nearly 7 months prior to the [[September 11 attacks]]) that the NSA proposed in a meeting to conduct blanket phone spying. He considered the spying to be illegal and refused to cooperate, and claims that the company was punished by being denied lucrative contracts.<ref>{{cite web |last = D'Andrade |first = Hugh |title = Qwest CEO: NSA Punished Qwest for Refusing to Participate in Illegal Surveillance--Pre-9/11! |work = Deeplinks blog |publisher = Electronic Frontier Foundation |date = October 17, 2007 |url = https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished-qwest-refusing-participate-illegal-surveillance-pre-9-11 |access-date = 2015-05-21 }}</ref>

=== 2010–2013 ===
In 2011 details of the [[mass surveillance industry]] were released by [[WikiLeaks]]. According to [[Julian Assange]], "We are in a world now where not only is it theoretically possible to record nearly all telecommunications traffic out of a country, all telephone calls, but where there is an [[mass surveillance industry|international industry]] selling the devices now to do it."<ref>{{cite news|title=Wikileaks disclosure shines light on Big Brother|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikileaks-disclosure-shines-light-on-big-brother/|work=CBS News|date=December 1, 2011 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}</ref>

== Disclosures since 2013 ==
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== See also ==
* [[History of surveillance]]
* [[NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)]]
* [[Global surveillance whistleblowers]]

== References ==
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