‘Delete our data’: Privacy advocates confront GCHQ after court rules human rights were breached

Privacy campaigners are demanding that British intelligence agency GCHQ delete personal data collected unlawfully and are urging members of the public to do the same.

‘Delete our data’: Privacy advocates confront GCHQ after court rules human rights were breached P

‘Delete our data’: Privacy advocates confront GCHQ after court rules human rights were breached P

Their application follows a landmark court ruling that found the surveillance organization had collected intelligence illegally up until December last year.

UK-based Privacy International and Pakistan-based Bytes for All are initially applying to find out if the spy organization is holding records of their communications.

If GCHQ does hold such records, intercepted unlawfully, the campaign groups will request for them to be deleted.

Privacy International says anyone can follow the same procedure and request their own data be deleted.

The move comes in the wake a ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) that GCHQ’s access to data obtained from the US National Security Agency (NSA) was in breach of human rights law.

The IPT is an independent UK judicial body that investigates complaints against the intelligence services.

It ruled on Friday that GCHQ’s data collection was in breach of articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Article 8 refers to the right to private family life and 10 to freedom of expression.

Human rights groups Liberty and Amnesty International worked alongside Privacy International and Bytes for All to challenge GCHQ’s surveillance practices at the IPT.

http://rt.com/uk/230959-delete-data-privacy-gchq/

‘Delete our data’: Privacy advocates confront GCHQ after court rules human rights were breached

‘Delete our data’: Privacy advocates confront GCHQ after court rules human rights were breached

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