30.10.2014 - 11:41 [ Techdirt ]

UK‘s GCHQ Can Get Warrantless Access To Bulk NSA Data

Last week, we learned that the GCHQ certainly isn‘t engaged in mass surveillance — provided you redefine the meaning of „mass“ and „surveillance“ in unconventional ways. Now we discover that maybe it doesn‘t really need to, since it can just ask the NSA and other secret services for access to their raw data without even needing a warrant, as a group of human rights organizations have discovered: