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GCHQ report due after US spy claims
GCHQ Prism spying claims: Agency to report 'shortly'
Eavesdropping centre GCHQ will report to MPs within days over claims it secretly gathered intelligence from the world's largest internet companies.
The Guardian claims the UK's listening post accessed data on the internet activity of Britons obtained by a US spying programme called Prism.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee Committee (ISC) expects the report by Monday.
GCHQ said in a statement it operated to "a strict legal and policy framework".
US spies have been accused of tapping into servers of nine US internet giants including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google in a giant anti-terror sweep. All deny giving government agents access to servers.
The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that Britain's secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency (NSA), since at least June 2010.
The newspaper said the Prism programme appeared to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.
Read more here -- > BBC News - GCHQ Prism spying claims: Agency to report
Eavesdropping centre GCHQ will report to MPs within days over claims it secretly gathered intelligence from the world's largest internet companies.
The Guardian claims the UK's listening post accessed data on the internet activity of Britons obtained by a US spying programme called Prism.
Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee Committee (ISC) expects the report by Monday.
GCHQ said in a statement it operated to "a strict legal and policy framework".
US spies have been accused of tapping into servers of nine US internet giants including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google in a giant anti-terror sweep. All deny giving government agents access to servers.
The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that Britain's secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency (NSA), since at least June 2010.
The newspaper said the Prism programme appeared to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.
Read more here -- > BBC News - GCHQ Prism spying claims: Agency to report
