US spy agencies have lost the legal authority to bulk collect Americans’ phone data after the Senate failed to reach a deal to renew the powers on Sunday.
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.
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that he sends letters via traditional post rather than email to try and avoid the prying eyes of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Revelations about the underhand tactics used by the NSA to track millions of innocent people continue to flow with the report from Glenn Greenwald’s website The Intercept claiming that the security agency attempted infect the computers of millions of people with malware as part of a programme called “Turbine”.
In his first live public appearance since leaking thousands of classified intelligence documents and fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of “setting fire to the future of the internet”.