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October 5th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The groups including Big Brother Watch, the Open Rights Group and English PEN together with the German internet activist Constanze Kurz are challenging GCHQ’s mass online surveillance programs at the European Court of Human Rights.
In their papers filed at the court, they said that Britain’s spy agencies have illegally collected vast amounts of private data, including the content of e-mails and social media messages.
The court action is made after revelations by the U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden that the UK spy agencies are tracking and collecting data transmitted by cellphones or through online activity in a daily basis.
“GCHQ has the capacity to collect more than 21 petabytes of data a day – equivalent to sending all the information in all the books in the British Library 192 times every 24 hours”, according to later estimates.
“We are asking the court to declare that unrestrained surveillance of much of Europe’s internet communications by the UK government, and the outdated regulatory system that has permitted this, breach our rights to privacy”, said Daniel Carey, solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn, which is taking the case.
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, said the system with which spying apparatuses are regulated was no longer fit for purpose.
“The laws governing how internet data is accessed were written when barely anyone had broadband access and were intended to cover old-fashioned copper telephone lines,” he said.
“Parliament did not envisage or intend those laws to permit scooping up details of every communication we send, including content, so it’s absolutely right that GCHQ is held accountable in the courts for its actions”, added Pickles.
Jim Killock, executive director of Open Rights Group, said “the extent of the UK and US surveillance created risks for everyone and placed extreme degrees of power in the hands of secret agencies”.
“This is made worse by the lack of democratic accountability and judicial oversight. People living across the UK, Europe, the USA and beyond need the courts to protect their rights and start the process of re-establishing public trust”, he noted.
The legal challenge came after the Council of Europe adopted a resolution, in which they demanded better protection for whistleblowers who reveal state wrongdoing.
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Source Article from http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/04/327576/court/
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