Australia accessed NSA spy data more than UK over 12 months: Edward Snowden document
The document relates to the NSA's PRISM program, which takes chunks of users' online activity directly from companies like Google.
In the 12 months to May 2012, Australia's electronic spy agency, the ASD, then known as DSD, produced 310 reports based on PRISM. The UK produced 197.
Eric King from British activist group Privacy International found the document and told Lateline he was astonished.
"What we've now found out is that DSD, the Australian intelligence services, were using PRISM, they were having access directly to Google, Apple, Facebook and other big US companies which are right into heart of their customer's data and pulling that out," he said.
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