The GCHQ ‘doughnut’ base in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Photograph: GCHQ/PA
The Guardian: GCHQ uses Instagram to 'open up world of espionage' to public
UK intelligence hub opens account on app that has become growing source of citizens’ metadata.
After years of secretly hoovering up metadata about millions of citizens, Britain’s spy agency has made its public foray into one of the growing sources for such information by opening its own Instagram account.
GCHQ’s account on the photo-sharing site claims the agency will provide a glimpse into its secret world. Its first post acknowledges GCHQ’s institutional suspicion about openness by including a photograph of the border fence with a “no photography” sign attached.
The account is part of GCHQ’s expanding presence on social media, and comes two years after it opened a Twitter account, which has 75,000 followers.
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WNU Editor: The GCHQ's website is here.