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Friday, July 24, 2015

Mass surveillance

MPs can no longer remain exempt from surveillance, lawyers concede

The GCHQ headquarters in Cheltenham.
The 50-year-old political convention that the UK’s intelligence agencies will not intercept the communications of MPs and members of the Lords cannot survive in an age of bulk interception, government lawyers have conceded.
The so-called Wilson doctrine “simply cannot work sensibly” when bulk interception is taking place, James Eadie QC told the investigatory powers tribunal – the court that hears complaints about the intelligence agencies.

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