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GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, court rules

Posted on February 6, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Owen Bowcott reports:

Mass surveillance of the internet by the British monitoring agency GCHQ was unlawful until the end of last year, the UK’s most secretive court has ruled.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled on Friday that the agency’s access to intercepted information obtained by the US National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights law.

Read more on The Guardian.

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