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UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System
An anonymous reader writes Recently, Techdirt noted that the FBI may soon have permission to break into computers anywhere on the planet. It will come as no surprise to learn that the U.S.'s partner in crime, the UK, granted similar powers to its own intelligence services some time back. What's more unexpected is that it has now publicly said as much, as Privacy International explains: "The British Government has admitted its intelligence services have the broad power to hack into personal phones, computers, and communications networks, and claims they are legally justified to hack anyone, anywhere in the world, even if the target is not a threat to national security nor suspected of any crime." That important admission was made in what the UK government calls its "Open Response" to court cases started last year against GCHQ.
It's legal. This is the UK. There is no constitution.
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It's legal. This is the UK. There is no constitution.
I can't believe this has been modded informative when it is blatantly, and even legally, wrong.
The UK certainly does have a Constitution, and in fact our political system is termed a 'Constitutional monarchy'.
I'm sorry, but this is taught early on at in British Secondary Schools.Anyone who's been to school in the UK should know this. Any UK immigrant who's passed the UK citizenship test will know this.
The laws which the security services are alleged to have broken form part of that constitution.