GCHQ has «tapped» the
submarine fibre - optic
cables transporting internet data in and out of the UK to give it blanket powers to monitor our so - called «meta - data» that reveals the who,
when and where of our communications and browsing history.
«The effect of a
submarine eruption on a ship is described, by those seamen who have experienced it, to be similar to that of dragging the ship bodily along a roughly paved road; or like that violent shaking which the chain
cable produces
when running through the hawse; and this effect appears to have been felt in greater or less degree in the various instances now brought forward.»