Tuesday, March 17, 2015

UK Parliament Shows Evidence of Mass Surveillance as Activists Call For Reform

The GCHQ (Government Communication Headquarters) is under a series of investigations from various UK and European organizations, following Edward Snowden’s mass surveillance leaks showing the British intelligence service’s involvement in all stages, helping the NSA and Five Eyes Defeat.
Snowden even claimed the GCHQ was far worse than the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S., due to the fact no constitution blocks the intelligence agency from deploying even more surveillance programs to gain ever more metadata.
In one of the most recent investigations, the court agreed that GCHQ’s actions were illegal under the context of human rights violations, and a full reform of the surveillance network should be introduced and publicly shown.
This could hurt the ‘Five Eyes Defeat’, a group consisting of Canada, U.S., Australia and New Zealand’s intelligence groups to establish global surveillance, supposedly to better understand terrorist activity online and spot it.

There is no public evidence of these mass surveillance programs actually leading to any progress on the terrorism front, although one investigation in the UK showed a ton of redacted evidence claiming otherwise.
Even though the UK Parliament remains cautious to say anything on the matter of mass surveillance, the same Parliament that keeps things like child rape gangs in Rotherham and the illegalities of the Iraq war hidden from its own people, for their safety of course.
The most shameful thing is Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Labour leader Ed Miliband all seem to not care or not have differing opinions on the subject of mass surveillance, more than happy to see all of their people subjected to unwarranted tapping of phones, laptops and networks.

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