A UK tribunal ruled on Friday that intelligence sharing between GCHQ and the NSA before December 2014 was not lawful because of a lack of transparency. This is the first time the secretive Investigative Powers Tribunal, which oversees the actions of the UK’s intelligence services GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, has ever upheld a complaint against an agency and it follows a ruling in December that the UK intelligence operation was not in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Details may be found in ana article by Blathnaid Healy in Mashable at http://mashable.com/2015/02/06/uk-tribunal-gchq-nsa/.
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