Η GCHQ, the British intelligence agency is finally set to appear before the UK's highest court. In the court libertarian activist groups will attend as prosecution witnesses.
According to The newspaper Guardian, 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 too 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, was leaked by Edward Snowden and featured a secret wiretapping system from undersea fiber optic cables. The program has been tested between 2008 and 2011 and has been operational since autumn 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.
