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Seven ISPs Take Legal Action Against GCHQ

Posted by Unknown on from the ways-to-get-on-a-watch-list dept.

mrspoonsi (2955715) writes with this excerpt from the BBC: ISPs from the U.S., UK, Netherlands, and South Korea have joined forces with campaigners Privacy International to take GCHQ to task over alleged attacks on network infrastructure. It is the first time that GCHQ has faced such action. The ISPs claim that alleged network attacks, outlined in a series of articles in Der Spiegel and the Intercept, were illegal and "undermine the goodwill the organizations rely on." The complaint (PDF).

2 of 65 comments (clear)

  1. Well now. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good luck with that.

  2. But but but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "We're GCHQ and are therefore free to act in any way we see fit."