HQ worked with the NSA to spy on Citizens using the PRISM spy programme
The Unhived Mind [UHM]
7 June 2013 Last updated at 17:06 Share this pageEmailPrint
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22813893
GCHQ Prism spying allegations ‘chilling’ – Keith Vaz
Claims Britain’s electronic listening post GCHQ has been gathering data through a secret US spy programme are “chilling,” says a senior Labour MP.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs committee, said he would be writing to the home secretary about the allegations in The Guardian.
According to the newspaper, GCHQ had access to data covertly gathered from leading internet firms in the US.
GCHQ said it operated within a “strict legal and policy framework”.
theunhivedmind on June 7, 2013 at 4:33 pm said:
This has been going on for decades already. GCHQ use the NSA to supply wiretap data on UK Citizens whilst the NSA in the past use GCHQ to wiretap the US. This way they always got around laws against spying on their own citizens. Do not be fooled that the NSA is the big boy of the block, the GCHQ is the real intelligence gathering power.
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