The British Foreign minister, William Hague states that the afluisterdienst GCHQ the controversi lwa le Prism-monitoring program of the NSA has not abused to British around the law. According to Hague, monitoring is, however, ‘necessary, proportionate and targeted’.
Hague responded Sunday to allegations that the British intelligence service GCHQ had access to Prism, the monitoring program of the Us intelligence agency NSA that access would provide access to user data from internet companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft. Because GCHQ of his American colleagues Prism would be allowed to use, the GCHQ since June 2010, the Uk rules for the retrieval of evidence around, for example, wrote The Guardian last week. The GCHQ would to may last year, 197 reports have been prepared on the basis of information derived from Prism.
According to Hague, the Uk has strict laws that ensure that there is a balance between civil liberties and the security of the country. The minister stated that the internetmonitoring by the British secret services ‘authorized, necessary, proportionate and targeted’, and that law-abiding citizens have ‘nothing to fear’.
Hague did not directly discuss the partnerships between American and British counterparts, because this terrorists, criminal networks and foreign intelligence services would help. Therefore, the minister in the middle or the GCHQ has actually used Prism. Would the use of any Prism, or any other American monitoringtools by the British are not referred to British law to circumvent, so stressed the British minister of Foreign Affairs: “Our legal base is strong and the ministerial supervision strict,” said Hague. The minister promised Monday the British house of Commons further to inform about the Prism-rel.