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Mass Spying On Users Of Social Media Totally Legal, Says UK Government
Jon Queally
commondreams.org
The British government has responded to a lawsuit by privacy and civil liberty advocates by releasing a 48-page document that justifies what it calls "legal" spying of its citizens who use foreign-based internet sites like Google and YouTube and social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and others.
The document itself (pdf) is a signed legal statement by Charles Farr, director general of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, which describes how his office has interpreted UK statutes in order to justify state surveillance by defining use of web platforms not based in the UK as ‘external communications’ not subject to normal privacy protections enjoyed by British citizens.
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