Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
October 16, 2015 08:00 am

UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them

An anonymous reader writes: After decades of a gentleman's agreement to exempt them surveillance, UK MPs have discovered that GCHQ now deems them as legitimate targets of surveillance. Consequently, members of the UK Parliament have called for an emergency debate on domestic surveillance. Shadow Commons leader Chris Bryant said: "To all intents and purposes, it means that the Wilson doctrine is dead. It is the cornerstone of the bill of rights and it is one of the most ancient freedoms of this country. In another era, before the existence of telephones and emails it meant that MPs and peers, even in war, had a right for their written correspondence not to be intercepted or be interfered with."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3ElWyjHwEJA/uk-mps-hold-emergency-debate-after-court-makes-it-legal-for-gchq-to-spy-on-them

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot