Bulk surveillance impedes already over-stretched authorities, who would be better off recruiting more and better-trained investigators and analysts.
GCHQ has been censured by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) for contravening human rights law by failing to reveal information about how it shares surveillance data with the US.
It is a gross violation of privacy for communications companies to monitor their users despite what the intelligence services may claim.
A new piece of street art rumoured to be by the infamous artist Banksy has appeared on a wall in Cheltenham.
AngryBirds.com, the website for the popular mobile game has been hacked, with the website calling itself “Spying Birds” after recent revelations about the NSA and GCHQ feasting on data allegedly leaked by the app and others.