Investigations



GOOGLE'S PROJECT DRAGONFLY
Exposing the internet giant's confidential plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China.

• Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal

• Google Struggles to Contain Employee Uproar Over China Censorship Plans

• Inside Google’s Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China

• Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship is “Moral and Ethical” Crisis

• Google Executives Misled Staff in Meeting on China Censorship

• Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over “Forfeiture of Our Values” in China

• Google China Prototype Links Searches to Phone Numbers

• Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

• Leaked Transcript of Private Meeting Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China

• Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams From Secret China Project

• Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation

THE SECRETS OF AT&T
Disclosing connections between the communications giant and a hidden network across the United States that covertly monitors phone calls and emails.

• The NSA's spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight

• The NSA's hidden spy hubs in eight US cities

THE FIVE EYES -- AN ONGOING SERIES
Shining light on the world's most powerful spy agencies and their controversial activities.

USA: The National Security Agency

• The surveillance engine: how the NSA built Its own secret Google

• In bungled spying operation, NSA targeted pro-democracy campaigner

• NSA plans to infect ‘millions’ of computers with malware

• How secret partners expand NSA’s surveillance dragnet

• Malware in European Union attack linked to US and British intelligence

• Operation Auroragold: How the NSA hacks cellphone networks worldwide

• NSA planned to hijack Google app store to hack smartphones

• Top-secret document reveals NSA spied on porn habits as part of plan to discredit 'radicalizers'

UK: Government Communications Headquarters

• Inside Menwith Hill: The NSA's British base at the heart of US targeted killing

• British spies track web users' online identities

• Operation Socialist: The inside story of how British spies hacked Belgium’s largest telco

• Vodafone-owned company aided British mass surveillance

• How UK spies hacked an ally and got away with it

• Facing data deluge, secret UK spying report warned of intelligence failure

• GCHQ to trawl Facebook and Twitter for intelligence

NEW ZEALAND: The Government Communications Security Bureau

• New Zealand launched mass surveillance project while publicly denying it

• New Zealand targets trade partners, hacks computers in spy operations

• Inside Waihopai's domes

• NZ's spy reach stretches across globe

• New Zealand used NSA system to target officials, anti-corruption campaigner

• Revealed: The names NZ targeted using NSA's XKeyscore system

• New Zealand spied on WTO director candidates

• New Zealand spy data shared with Bangladeshi human rights abusers

CANADA: Communications Security Bureau

• Documents reveal Canada’s secret hacking tactics

• CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers

• Canada casts global surveillance dragnet over file downloads

• Canadian spies collect domestic emails in secret security sweep

AUSTRALIA: Australian Signals Directorate

• The U.S. spy hub in the heart of Australia

UNDERCOVER IN JAPAN
Unprecedented disclosures about the Japanese government's shadowy intelligence agencies.

• The untold story of Japan's secret spy agency

• Japan made secret deals with NSA that expanded global surveillance

COUNTER-TERRORISM
Investigating the use and abuse of British counter-terrorism powers.

• Josh Walker fought against ISIS. He nearly got killed. Now he's charged with terrorism.

• How the UK prosecuted a student on terrorism charges for downloading a book

• The Life and death of Objective Peckham: Stripped of British citizenship and killed by an American drone

• Airport police demanded an activist’s passwords. He refused. Now he faces prison in the UK.

• University staff asked to inform on 'vulnerable' Muslim students

• Police forces come together to create regional surveillance units

• Police share more than 50m records about members of the public

POLICE AND PRIVATE SPIES
Revealing the companies selling the police legally dubious surveillance tools.

• The little-known company that enables worldwide mass surveillance

• Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

• Governments turn to hacking techniques for surveillance of citizens

• Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones

• Police buy software to map suspects' digital movements