A Chinese report on global surveillance by US intelligence an agency has confirmed the existence of their snooping activities directed against China, the latest strike back against Washington for slapping cyber espionage charges against five Chinese military officers.

 

The report was released Monday by the Internet Media Research Center, which is under the State Council Information Office. 

 

"The revelations about PRISM and other programs demonstrate that the US has mounted the most wide-ranging, costly, long-term surveillance operation in the history of the Internet," the report said.

 

PRISM is a secret surveillance program of the US National Security Agency (NSA), details of which were revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

 

Citing documents from Snowden, media reports, including from the South China Morning Post and Der Spiegel, have said that US secret surveillance targeted the Chinese government and its leaders, Chinese companies, scientific research institutes, ordinary Net users, and a large number of cell phone users.

 

The report said an investigation carried out by various Chinese government departments over several months "confirmed the existence of snooping activities directed against China." 

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