[6] The Tempora programme was revealed in 2013 as part of the global surveillance disclosures by the former American National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
[6] Following his retirement from GCHQ Pepper was a member of the advisory board of the French arms company Thales and a strategic adviser to Defence Strategy and Solutions LLP.
[7] Pepper contributed a chapter to the January 2010 issue of the Public Policy and Administration journal entitled The Business of Sigint: The Role of Modern Management in the Transformation of GCHQ.
[9] In the article Pepper outlined how modern corporate management techniques had been used to change the operating culture of GCHQ following the end of the Cold War.
[10] Pepper said that “Nobody wants the easy stuff anymore and there is no point spending effort and money collecting it...Thanks to Google Maps and Streeview anyone can today see photographic detail of far away countries which hitherto would have been available only through secret and highly sophisticated national satellites.