A UK court ruled today that Britain’s GCHQ violated human
rights by accessing intelligence from the NSA’s mass surveillance program. The
GCHQ violated the right to privacy and free speech. This is the first time that
the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled against an intelligence and
security agency in 15 years. In December, the Court had rejected the
accusations of “mass surveillance. It has been said that this was all necessary
to share information about terrorist and criminal groups to the US. ” The
surveillance programs were challenged by Amnesty International, Privacy
International, as well as a few other rights groups. However, the agency is now
considered compliant after disclosing details of the arrangement late last
year. Some rights groups are still dissatisfied and will challenge the December
ruling in the European Court for Human Rights.
Many people
believe that intelligence agencies act like they are above the law to get what
they want. This mass surveillance has been a reoccurring problem over the past
decade. This violates our human rights privacy. The mass surveillance has
affected millions around the world. There is no reason that these intelligence
agencies should be surveying anyone unless there was an absolutely good reason.
If they were surveying for terrorist and criminal groups then they need to just
look at them and not every one else. The intelligence agencies need to begin
disclosing certain details to the public. Had the agencies disclosed what was
going to on, they would not have breached the human rights law.
Emily Burris
02/06/15
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