Amnesty International brings claim against UK over state surveillance

Headline Title: Amnesty International brings claim against UK over state surveillance 09 December 2013 Amnesty International has today announced it has issued a claim against the UK over concerns that the organization’s communications have been unlawfully accessed by the UK intelligence services.In June disclosures made by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the USA was routinely accessing the communications of millions of people through a previously secret programme, PRISM, run by the National Security Agency (NSA) which the UK authorities had access to. It later emerged…

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