斯諾登文件爆美監控菲律賓短信

The Philippines is among the countries being secretly monitored by a telecommunications spying program of the US NationAl Security Agency (NSA), as revealed by whistleblower and fugitive Edward Snowden.

據《菲律賓星報》5月20日報道，美國“棱鏡門”揭祕者愛德華•斯諾登披露的文件顯示，稱菲律賓也在美國安局祕密監控的國家之列。

Online publication The Intercept, a platform releasing Snowden's leaks, alleged in a post on Tuesday (Manila time) that NSA's cutting-edge surveillance program MYSTIC collects "metadata" and content from mobile networks in the Caribbean, Mexico, Kenya, the Philippines and another unnamed country.

刊登斯諾登泄密文件的在線網站The Intercept於馬尼拉時間20日發文稱，NSA代號爲“神祕”（MYSTIC）的監控項目蒐集加勒比地區、墨西哥、肯尼亞、菲律賓和另一個國家移動網絡的“元數據”。

"All told, the NSA is using MYSTIC to gather personal data on mobile calls placed in countries with a combined population of more than 250 million people," The Intercept writers Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras said in the report.

文章稱，NSA用“神祕”項目蒐集的個人移動電話數據涉及不同國家的2.5億多人。該文作者之一格倫•格林沃爾德曾依據斯諾登提供的材料發表多篇文章揭露美國監視項目。

Metadata are information revealing message or call's time stamp, source and destination--information collected by MYSTIC that may be authorized by the host country and even by the telecommunications firms. The program also offers "near real-time, complete access to the additional target country's GSM networks," according to the document leaked by Snowden.

所謂元數據，是指電話或者短信的時間、來源和接收者等信息。美國情報界曾在2013年的預算方案提出出資成立“神祕”項目，稱該項目有能力獲取上述國家的全面元數據信息，還可近乎實時監控一些國家的全球移動通信系統（GSM）網絡。

Another classified document, provided by Snowden, provides a NSA Special Source Operations' description of MYSTIC as a "program for embedded collection systems overtly installed on target networks predominantly for collection and processing of wireless/mobile communications networks."

斯諾登提供的另一份文件稱，“神祕”項目可公開在目標網絡安裝嵌入式採集系統，蒐集和處理無線電話/手機通訊網絡的信息，公開的說法是爲電信公司提供合法商業服務。

There is no indication whether MYSTIC also intercepts phone calls and voice data in the Philippines, but it does pull text messaging data.

尚不知曉“神祕”項目是否還攔截了菲律賓人的電話和語音數據，但一份文件顯示，蒐集短信數據是確鑿的。

The Intercept said it asked NSA to comment, but it only said it does not collect foreign intelligence in an arbitrary and unconstrained way as it follows protocols to protect people's privacy. Philippine laws prohibit wire tapping and related violations not authorized by all parties concerned.

對於The Intercept的採訪，美國國家安全局只表示，該機構沒有以任意和無約束的方式蒐集國外情報，並恪守保護個人隱私。巴哈馬，墨西哥、肯尼亞和菲律賓方面均未迴應。菲律賓法律禁止在未經當事各方授權的情況下執行竊聽行爲。