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.
The Open Rights group, Big Brother Watch, Constanze Kurz and English PEN are challenging the legality of the mass data hoovering by the UK government revealed by Edward Snowden.
Alongside the outrage, there is also a certain gratitude towards Snowden in some quarters for providing information about what has been going on, including a surprisingly broad spectrum of politicians are calling for him to be offered political asylum
The source of the recent leaks and revelations about the Prism surveillance scheme by the NSA in the US has been revealed as former CIA technical operative Edward Snowden.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has direct access to information on the servers of major American internet companies, according to reports published in the Guardian and the Washington Post.