UK Spy Agencies Have Illegally Violated Citizens Privacy For Seventeen Years

Investigatory Powers tribunal (IPT), an independent investigating body responsible for overseeing any breach and illegal use of intelligence services, have found that the intelligence and security agencies from the UK has unlawfully violated Article 8 that protects the right to privacy set in place by the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) for seventeen years by secretly amassing both personal and communications data of its citizens that are not of any "intelligence interest."