UK spy agencies may be circumventing data-sharing law, tribunal told
by Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#3596T)
Challenge brought by Privacy International alleges MI5 and MI6 data-sharing regimes and legal oversight system are illegal
MI5 and MI6 may be circumventing legal safeguards when they share bulk datasets with foreign intelligence services and commercial partners, a court has been told.
Most of the bulk personal datasets relate to UK citizens who are not of "legitimate intelligence interest", the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) heard.
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