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Report: NSA electronic catchword targeting in EU nations widespread

30 October 2015

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"An NSA catchword surveillance list contains numerous European and German targets, according to a German news magazine. According to its report, a German federal investigator has concluded that US spying was widespread."

Former federal judge turned government-appointed special investigator Kurt Graulich had found a "large number" of NSA catchwords aimed at entities in two-thirds of all EU nations, German news magazine "Der Spiegel" said on Friday. Graulich, who was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition in July, is due to submit his 300-page report next Thursday to the German parliament's inquiry into the activities within Germany of the US National Security Agency (NSA) from 2004 until late 2013."

See the article: Report: NSA electronic catchword targeting in EU nations widespread (DW, link)

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