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Vodafone details government spying (RCR Mobile Minute)

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The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless. Conversations on Vodafone’s mobile network are routinely listened to by government agencies, according to a report out today from The Guardian. The European telecom giant decided to speak out because it wanted people to understand the extent of government surveillance. It says that in six countries governments routinely attached wires to its networks in order to listen to conversations and track the locations of certain individuals. Vodafone is not sharing the names of these countries in order to protect its employees there. But the company is publishing a 40,000 word report on government surveillance today.
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Martha DeGrasse
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Martha DeGrasse is the publisher of Network Builder Reports (nbreports.com). At RCR, Martha authored more than 20 in-depth feature reports and more than 2,400 news articles. She also created the Mobile Minute and the 5 Things to Know Today series. Prior to joining RCR Wireless News, Martha produced business and technology news for CNN and Dow Jones in New York and managed the online editorial group at Hoover’s Online before taking a number of years off to be at home when her children were young. Martha is the board president of Austin's Trinity Center and is a member of the Women's Wireless Leadership Forum.