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Amnesty International Seeks Explanation For 'Absolutely Shocking' Surveillance
Mark Wilson writes: A court recently revealed via email that the UK government had been spying on Amnesty International. GCHQ had put Amnesty under surveillance — despite this having previously been denied — and now the human rights organization wants answers.
In a letter to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Amnesty International asks for an explanation for the surveillance. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal's (IPT) email made it clear that GCHQ had been intercepting, accessing and storing communications, something that Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty believes 'makes it vividly clear that mass surveillance has gone too far'.
In a letter to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Amnesty International asks for an explanation for the surveillance. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal's (IPT) email made it clear that GCHQ had been intercepting, accessing and storing communications, something that Amnesty International's Secretary General, Salil Shetty believes 'makes it vividly clear that mass surveillance has gone too far'.
Your Utopian idylls are trite. This does not mean I do not agree with you on principle. It means I think you would have to be a complete moron to expect anything different. This includes the lies, the act, and the continued action long after we have finished this conversation. Bitching about it online does you no good. Your apathy, laziness, and disregard for your social contract obligations are why they will keep doing what they are doing. You can blame it on them but, frankly, they are only doing what comes naturally and to think it would ever be different is to spit in the face of reality.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."