Cloak and dagger stuff: People using their smartphones at Canary Wharf, London. Snowden claimed that GCHQ used a series of interception tools to switch on a smartphone remotely to take photos or record audio without the owner's knowledge.
LONDON: British spies can hack into phones remotely with a simple text message and make audio recordings or take photos without owners knowing, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said.
“They want to own your phone instead of you,” the whistleblower said in an interview with the BBC’s Panorama programme, referring to Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) agency.
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