The German government has expressed the growing public anger of its citizens over Britain’s mass programme of monitoring global phone and internet traffic and directly challenged UK ministers over the whole basis of GCHQ’s Project Tempora surveillance operation.The German justice minister, who has described the secret operation by Britain’s eavesdropping agency as a catastrophe that sounded “like a Hollywood nightmare”, warned UK ministers that free and democratic societies could not flourish when states shielded their actions in “a veil of secrecy”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/25/germany-uk-gchq-internet-surveillanceAlso see:Germany challenges UK over legal basis of GCHQ mass monitoring of global internet traffic
Germany has directly challenged British ministers over GCHQ’s reported programme of the mass monitoring of global phone and internet traffic.Justice minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has to written Justice Secretary Chris Grayling and Home Secretary Theresa May questioning the legal basis for the programme code-named Project Tempora, The Guardian reported.
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GCHQ surveillance: Germany blasts UK over mass monitoring
The German government has expressed the growing public anger of its citizens over Britain’s mass programme of monitoring global phone and internet traffic and directly challenged UK ministers over the whole basis of GCHQ’s Project Tempora surveillance operation.