'GCHQ doesn't do mass surveillance or data collection', claims Parliamentary security committee report

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Nothing to see here - but we do need a new legal framework governing the security services' activities, claim MPs in long-awaited report

The long-awaited Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee report into privacy and security, published this morning, has dismissed suggestions that GCHQ and other parts of the UK's intellig...

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