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"UK security agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is reportedly working with the US authorities&amp;#039; PRISM programme to gather data on tech companies operating abroad. The Guardian claims to have uncovered evidence that the organisation has compiled 197 intelligence reports over the last few years based on the &amp;quot;personal material such as emails, photos and videos&amp;quot; it received. PRISM is said to allow the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI direct access to the servers of nine tech companies - Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have since denied all knowledge of PRISM. GCHQ is allegedly able to access the harvested data at will, and has been doing so since &amp;quot;at least June 2010&amp;quot;. It is unknown how these actions have affected UK citizens in recent years. Responding to the reports, the GCHQ did not address the issue directly but moved to assure the public that it &amp;quot;takes its obligations under the law very seriously&amp;quot;. Earlier this week, it was reported that US service provider Verizon is obliged to hand all of its call data to the governement. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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