bulk personal datasets

Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on potentially millions of people. 

UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance

The oversight court for the UK’s intelligence and security agencies has ruled they operated unlawfully and breached domestic human rights law by harvesting bulk comms data and maintaining large databases…

UK spy agencies’ bulk data practices ruled unlawful before 2015

Privacy campaign group Privacy International says documents it has obtained through a legal challenge to the UK security agencies data-harvesting practices illustrate the extent to which spies have systematically and…

UK spy agencies systematically amass data on innocent people, legal challenge reveals