Satellite dishes at a GCHQ outpost in Cornwall, near where transatlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore. Snowden revealed that GCHQ taps such cables and shares vast quantities of personal information with the NSA. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters
UK Mass Surveillance Laws Do Not Breach Human Rights, Tribunal Rules -- The Guardian
Rights groups brought case against GCHQ after Snowden revelations on extent of electronic surveillance in UK and US
Britain’s legal regime governing mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies does not violate human rights, a tribunal has ruled.
But the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) said it had identified one area where it has concerns about the adequacy of legal safeguards.
The tribunal will decide whether the human rights groups that brought the case have had their communications intercepted unlawfully in the past and whether any interception discovered was proportionate. The judgment said: “We have left open for further argument the question as to whether prior hereto there has been such a breach.”
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