GCHQ Prism spying claims: Agency to report 'shortly'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has requested an urgent report from listening agency GCHQ on its links to a secret US spy programme.

Committee chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind expects the report by Monday.

This follows claims, in the Guardian, that GCHQ has been covertly gathering data from leading internet firms in the US via America's Prism programme.

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The newspaper said that the Prism programme appeared to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.





Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22824379

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Gathering steam here in the UK. Shit will say hello to fan on Monday in Parliament.

[idwiyo]

1. Looking forward to Monday.

[zeemike]

2. Sometimes the shit needs to hit the fan.

It stinks a lot but then you have to clean it up.

[Lenomsky]

3. GCHQ ..

Have been monitoring UK internet traffic for years why not US too *rollseyes*

[suffragette]

4. I wonder how this links to pressure to pass the snooper's charter?

Would that have made it all legal n the UK?

Or, somehow more defensible in the eyes of the supporters of the Communications Data Bill?

It's interesting to think about what, if any, connection there is to the timing of all this.

Thanks for your posts on this. In the digital age, these issues are truly global as well as national.