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GCHQ mass Internet surveillance 'was unlawful', tribunal rules (bbc.co.uk)
12 points by callum85 on Feb 6, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Cue Cameron and May making blustery speeches in which they tell us to think of the children, that the bad Muslims are here to hurt us, that everybody is a paedophile, that we must sacrifice our unimportant liberties for the greater good of the plutarchy.

They'll ignore this like they do everything they disagree with.


"Prior to December", what about after December?


"In a previous December 2014 ruling, the IPT held that GCHQ’s access to NSA data was lawful from that time onward because certain of the secret policies governing the US-UK intelligence relationship were made public during Privacy International’s case against the security services. Yet that belated disclosure could not remedy the lack of transparency regarding the UK-US sharing prior to December 2014, meaning that all UK access to NSA intelligence material was unlawful before the Court’s judgement. "

see https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/press-releases/...


"Charlie Hebdo changed everything," will be the line, " the fact that terrorists were able to carry out this despicable attack demonstrates that our surveillance infrastructure is working to protect our citizens, however additional intelligence would have prevented the attack, and therefore we need to know what you masturbate to."




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