National Security Agency and British counterpart, GCHQ, gained secret access to German telecom companies’ internal networks, including Deutsche Telekom and Netcologne. NSA and GCHQ have been collaborating to get near-real-time visualization of the global internet as a part of NSA’s ‘Treasure Map’ surveillance program, also dubbed as “the Google Earth of the Internet” German parliamentary investigators plan to question executives of telecommunications operators about the program under which agencies have been breaking into service providers’ networks to monitor them.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/09/treasure-map-five-eyes-surveillance.html