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United Kingdom · founded 1919 · UK signals-intelligence and cyber-security agency.

Episode: CLASSIFIED — COMING SOON

Section: United Kingdom

Case files (3): GCHQ “Tempora” and the Big Brother Watch ruling · Katharine Gun: the GCHQ memo and the dropped prosecution · Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Liberty v GCHQ

Documented items (1)

VERIFIED 6 February 2015

Investigatory Powers Tribunal: Liberty v GCHQ

The tribunal ruled that the regime governing UK access to material intercepted by the NSA breached human-rights law until 2014, because the safeguards had not been public.

Sources (opened in a new tab):

The Guardian: UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful 'for seven years' ↗ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/06/gchq-mass-internet-surveillance-unlawful-court-nsa