UK spy agencies sharing bulk personal data with foreign allies was legal, says court


A privacy rights org this week lost an appeal in a case about the sharing of Bulk Personal Datasets (BPDs) by MI5, MI6, and GCHQ with foreign intelligence agencies.

The British agencies have never stated, in public, whether any of them have shared BPDs with foreign intelligence agencies – they have a so-called “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND) policy – but the judgment noted it “proceeds on the assumption that sharing has taken place.”

The true position, as noted by Queen’s Bench Division president Dame Victoria Sharp in the judgement, was revealed to the the defendant in its closed hearings.

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Source: The Register