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GCHQ internet surveillance 'was unlawful', tribunal rules GCHQ intelligence sharing 'was unlawful', tribunal rules
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The mass surveillance of the internet by UK intelligence agency GCHQ prior to December was unlawful, a tribunal has ruled. UK agency GCHQ's sharing of intelligence gathered by US mass surveillance programmes was unlawful, a tribunal has ruled.
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal said the intelligence sharing regime used did not comply with human rights law until recently. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) said the intelligence sharing regime between the agency and America's National Security Agency did not comply with human rights law until December.
It said there was a lack of transparency. The IPT cited a lack of transparency.
Privacy International and Liberty were among those who made the initial complaint. It is the first time the tribunal has ruled against an intelligence agency in its 15-year history.
It follows a ruling in December that the current system of UK intelligence collection did not breach the European Convention of Human Rights.
But the tribunal ruled that the public disclosure of two paragraphs of additional detail was essential to make the public regime "sufficiently foreseeable".
The agency is now compliant, the tribunal said.
Campaign groups Privacy International and Liberty were among those who made the initial complaint.
Liberty said it disagreed with the ruling.
The group said it will challenge the decision at the European Court of Human Rights.