U.K. Government Admits That It Conducts Mass Surveillance Of British Citizens On Facebook, Twitter, YouTube And Google

The Royal Air Force Menwith Hill base in Northern England provides intelligence support to Britain and the United States. Credit Nigel Roddis/Reuters

GCHQ Admits Mass Surveillance of Google, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook of UK Citizens -- IBTimes

The government's top anti-terror chief has been forced to admit to spying on UK citizens through Facebook, Google, Twitter and Youtube, due to a loophole in the law.

Charles Farr, the director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, issued a 48-page statement explaining that the domestic surveillance policy was in the name of national security.

The medium through which such communications are collected was justified by claiming that communications sent through such online services were classified as "external communications" due to the fact they passed through US servers.

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