Edward Snowden tells the BBC’s Panorama that the UK intelligence agency GCHQ can hack into phones without their owners’ knowledge. The former intelligence contractor reveals the existence of GCHQ’s ‘Smurf Suite’, a collection of secret intercept capabilities individually named after the blue cartoon characters, including ‘Dreamy Smurf’ and ‘Nosey Smurf’. The government has declined to comment, according to the BBC

Peter Taylor’s film: Edward Snowden, Spies and the Law on Panorama on BBC1 on Monday