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27-09-2018

Spy agencies broke the law by snooping on privacy campaigners


On 26 September, a tribunal ruled that British spy agencies broke the law by storing and reviewing data belonging to Privacy International (PI). - Mohamed Elmaazi, The Canary; 27 September 2018

On 26 September, a tribunal ruled that British spy agencies broke the law by storing and reviewing data belonging to Privacy International (PI).

The advocacy group launched a challenge against MI5, GCHQ, and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS – aka MI6) at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in June 2015. The IPT hears complaints against the security services.

The IPT says that MI5, the GCHQ, and the SIS all illegally held data belonging to PI. The spy agencies hoovered up PI’s details as part of its mass surveillance regimes.

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