UK-US surveillance regime was unlawful ‘for seven years’
The way this same story has been spun by the BBC worries me.<p>You'd think the news line has to be, as the Guardian and others are reporting, GCHQ mass Internet surveillance was 'unlawful'.<p>The Beeb did go with 'unlawful' in their original headline but the story has since been watered down with sheer wordiness.<p>'Unlawlful' now appears in the tenth paragraph, below an analysis panel, and is only then included in a quotation from a campaign group.<p>Nowhere in the article does the BBC succinctly say a tribunal held that GCHQ breached human rights law. It simply says the agency is now complaint (without saying that it was not for seven years).<p>To me at least, it seems the BBC is becoming less of a public-service broadcaster and more of a state one.<p>--
GCHQ censured over sharing of internet surveillance data with US
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