UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use

Privacy International writes:

Britain’s top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret Government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK.

This disturbing policy was made public due to a legal challenge brought by Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, Pakistani organisation Bytes for All, and five other national civil liberties organisations.1

Read more on Privacy International.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.