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The United Kingdom doesn’t really care about their citizen’s privacy. Their government tracks the browsing history of everyone in the UK who visits porn sites. Click the jump to read more.

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A mass surveillance operation embraced by a UK intelligence agency that recorded the web browsing records of every Internet user has been disclosed.

According to documents obtained by NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Karma Police operation saw GCHQ store up to 100 billion metadata records on people’s Internet browsing habits and tracked everything from porn sites visited to emails, calls, text messages, social media interactions and geolocation data.

Generally, 50 billion records of browsing activity and online communications were stored in 2012 which reveals that GCHQ intended to boost this number to 100 billion by the end of the year.

The documents were published for the first by the Intercept, revealing UK government’s online spying capabilities.

Privacy advocates have criticized the action of GCHQ monitoring people around the globe without the need for a court order.

Thank God I’m from America.

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