GCHQ's surveillance hasn't proved itself to be worth the cost to human rights
Monday, October 5, 2015 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The release of yet more of Edward Snowden's leaked files reveals the still-astonishing scale and breadth of government surveillance after more than a year of revelations. These recent papers revealed by Wikileaks discuss a programme within Britain's GCHQ known as "Karma Police", in which the intelligence agency gathered more than 1.1 trillion pieces of information on UK citizens between August 2007 and March 2009.