Η GCHQ, the British intelligence service is finally going to appear before the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom. The tribunal will be attending as witnesses of class activism groups of liberties.
According to the Guardian newspaper, civil liberties groups accusing GCHQ include Amnesty International, Liberty, American Civil Liberties Union, Privacy International and others. All groups believe that the intelligence service is very intrusive in its work.
The legitimacy of the whole situation is naturally questionable, as GCHQ intercepts, collects and uses data. the GCHQ
The case will be tried for a whole week by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the UK regulator for surveillance laws, and will focus heavily on the Tempora project, the mass monitoring operation in which GCQQ is involved.
Project Tempora, if you remember, leaked from Edward Snowden and presented a secret system of interceptions from underwater fiber optic cables. The program has been tested between 2008 and 2011 and has started to function normally since the autumn of 2011.
The British Intelligence Service will not deny or confirm the Tempora, but considering that all the information that came from Snowden was true, there is no doubt about whether the program was real or not.
However, the British Government has repeatedly stated that GCHQ is moving under the country's legislation. In addition, he claims that the service is under strict control, as the US government has said, until it turns out that the oversight body has no idea what the service was doing.
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