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Press release: UK intelligence agency admits unlawfully spying on Privacy International | Privacy International
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Thames House, Offices of MI5. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons

MI5 collected Privacy International’s private data and examined it
GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 unlawfully collected data relating to UK charity Privacy International
Privacy International has written to the UK’s Home Secretary demanding action against spy agencies
Disclosures come less than a fortnight after UK laws on mass surveillance ruled unlawful at European Court of Human Rights

The UK’s domestic-facing intelligence agency, MI5, today admitted that it captured and read Privacy International’s private data as part of its Bulk Communications Data (BCD) and Bulk Personal Datasets (BPD) programmes, which hoover up massive amounts of the public’s data. In further startling legal disclosures, all three of the UK’s primary intelligence agencies - GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 - also admitted that they unlawfully gathered data about Privacy International or its staff.

The intelligence agencies have repeatedly denied that their BPD and BCD programmes are tantamount to mass surveillance of people not suspected of any wrongdoing. Documents published today demonstrate that Privacy International, an international NGO, has been caught up in MI5’s investigations because its data was part of the UK intelligence agencies vast databases.

These revelations came during the course of Privacy International’s challenge to the BPD and BCD powers, which is currently pending before the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court which is set up to hear claims against the UK intelligence services. The IPT is required to inquire into any unlawful activity by the UK intelligence agencies, and to provide a summary of such activity to any claimant that comes before it.

Les citoyens britanniques surveillés illégalement pendant plus de dix ans
▻http://www.nextinpact.com/news/101806-les-citoyens-britanniques-surveilles-illegalement-pendant-plus-di

Le renseignement anglais a collecté illégalement des données pendant plus d’une décennie. C’est le verdict de l’Investigatory Powers Tribunal, la cour en charge de ce type de dossier. Cependant, puisque les programmes de collecte ont été révélés et que le gouvernement a posé des garde-fous, ils sont désormais légaux. Au travers d’un jugement de 70 pages, l’IPT indique que renseignement anglais s’est livré illégalement à deux activités pendant plus d’une décennie : les collectes de données et de métadonnées, (...)

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New court judgment finds UK surveillance agencies collected everyone’s communications data unlawfully and in secret, for over a decade
▻https://medium.com/privacy-international/press-release-new-court-judgment-finds-uk-surveillance-agencies-collected-ev

In a highly significant judgment released today, The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has found that the UK’s intelligence agencies were secretly and unlawfully collecting bulk data on people in the UK without adequate safeguards or supervision for over a decade. This is one of the most significant indictments of the secret use of the Government’s mass surveillance powers since Edward Snowden first began exposing the extent of US and UK spying in 2013. The Tribunal, which is tasked with hearing (...)

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GCHQ-NSA intelligence sharing unlawful, says UK surveillance tribunal | Privacy International
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/482

British intelligence services acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people’s personal communications collected by the NSA, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled today. The decision marks the first time that the Tribunal, the only UK court empowered to oversee GHCQ, MI5 and MI6, has ever ruled against the intelligence and security services in its 15 year history.

#surveillance #bonne_nouvelle

Snowden : le monde lui doit un immense merci

UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’ | UK news | The Guardian

▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/06/gchq-mass-internet-surveillance-unlawful-court-nsa

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The regime that governs the sharing between Britain and the US of electronic communications intercepted in bulk was unlawful until last year, a secretive UK tribunal has ruled.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) declared on Friday that regulations covering access by Britain’s GCHQ to emails and phone records intercepted by the US National Security Agency (NSA) breached human rights law.

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l’agence de renseignement britannique et le renseignement américain (NSA) échangé des informations sensibles de la surveillance des e-mails et appels téléphoniques pendant des années. Ils ont suivi un système qui a enfreint la loi, fermèrent la Colombie Le Tribunal d’investigation Pouvoirs aujourd’hui fixe.

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#Amnesty to take legal action against UK security services
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/amnesty-international-legal-action-uk-security-services

Amnesty said that given the global and often highly sensitive nature of its work, it was “highly likely” the organisation’s communications have been intercepted unlawfully by intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic.

It has issued a claim at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) arguing that the interception of its communications would be in breach of article 8 (right to privacy) and article 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the Human Rights Act.

“We regularly receive sensitive information from sources in situations that mean their co-operation with Amnesty could present a real risk to their safety and the safety of their family,” said Bochenek. “Any prospect that this type of communication is being intercepted by the US and UK through their mass surveillance programmes raises substantive concerns and presents a real threat to the effectiveness of Amnesty International’s work.”