The organisation Privacy International has filed a complaint against the British government. According to the privacyvoorvechter is the aftapprogramma disproportionately and unnecessarily. In addition, would the GCHQ-run aftapprogramma illegal.
The British intelligence service GCHQ would be in the so-called Tempora program various internet backbones, draining, petabytes of data collection and this information sharing with the NSA. Also, the Government Communications Headquarters have been found guilty of the eavesdropping on allies at a G20 meeting in the United Kingdom. The allegations are made in The Guardian, the British newspaper that has contacts with the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Burgerrechtenorganisatie Privacy International in response to the revelations, the British government sued at the so-called Investigatory Powers Tribunal. According to Privacy International is the afluisterprogramma of the GCHQ to be illegal, partly because the British government has no transparency. Thus, articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights violated. The British foreign minister, William Hague stated recently that monitoring by GCHQ ‘necessary, proportionate and targeted’.
Or the case a chance with the judges of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal is unclear. The court handles cases behind closed doors and does not publish comments on his judgments. The Guardian reports further that the tribunal only ten of more than a thousand complaints against the British intelligence services as well-founded has declared.