ABOVE: Sir Malcolm Rifkind
GCHQ insisted it operated within a “strict legal and policy framework”.
BRITISH eavesdropping agency GCHQ is to give a
parliamentary committee full details of its links to a controversial US
internet monitoring programme.
The Intelligence and Security Committee will
receive a report on claims it received material through the secret Prism
scheme “very shortly”, according to chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
Prism,
set up by the US National Security Agency, appeared to allow 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.
GCHQ insisted it operated within a “strict legal and policy framework”.
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