Gone are the days when we thought governments could only access our phone calls through official, naive-sounding procedures like warrants. Nevertheless, its only now, after the whole Snowden / NSA blow-up, that companies like Vodafone are trying …

Vodafone, the worlds second-biggest mobile phone company, said government agencies in a small number of countries in which it operates have direct access to its network, enabling them to listen in to calls. Security agencies across the world, and in particular in the United States and Britain, have faced greater scrutiny since Edward Snowden, a […]