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British Snoops GCHQ Openly Recruiting Hackers As Government Seeks More Surveillance Powers

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Dissent

Thomas Fox-Brewster reports:

Now that the Conservative Party has secured a majority government in the UK, it’s pushing ahead with plans to expand the surveillance state with the Communications Data Bill, also known as Snooper’s Charter, which would require communications providers from BT to Facebook to maintain records of customers’ internet activity, text messages and voice calls for a year. This may have emboldened GCHQ, the British spy agency and chief NSA partner, which has, for the first time, openly called for applicants to fill the role of Computer Network Operations Specialists, also known as nation-state funded hackers.

Read more on Forbes.

Will the government give job applicants immunity if they confess to crimes as a way to demonstrate their skills?

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