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UK panel OKs surveillance practices
December 06, 2014
A British tribunal today ruled that intelligence gathering practices used by the national electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ do not constitute a privacy violation.
The five judges of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal today rebuffed arguments brought by privacy advocates reacting to US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden's disclosures about widespread data collection by US and UK agencies.