Privacy International exists to promote and defend privacy in an age of ever more surveillance, particularly bulk surveillance of citizens who are under no suspicion of committing any crime. The UK intelligence agencies, for instance, have been shown to be hoovering up such information as travel movements, financial records, and internet and telephone use. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has twice ruled that the UK agencies' access to the databases so created has been unlawful.
Now it has become clear that not only has data relating to Privacy International been swept up by GCHP, HI5 and MI6; but MI5 has also unlawfully read and captured Privacy International's private data as part of an active investigation.
Why are our intelligence agencies wasting their time and money spying on a human rights organisation that is working in the public interest? Surely MI5 has bigger fish to fry?
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