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Privacy International says the decision by the investigatory powers tribunal allows anyone in the world to ask GCHQ if the US unlawfully shared their individual records with Britain.
Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, said: "We have known for some time that the NSA and GCHQ have been engaged in mass surveillance, but never before could anyone explicitly find out if their phone calls, emails or location histories were unlawfully shared between the US and the UK.
Because people located all over the world are affected by illegal intelligence sharing, not only British citizens, but anyone in the world, can ask if their records collected by NSA were unlawfully shared with GCHQ.
The claims filed today with the IPT will "seek to establish whether GCHQ has spied on the claimants, whether their communications were part of those unlawfully shared between NSA and GCHQ, and how the Tribunal is interpreting intelligence sharing", according to pro-privacy organization Privacy International, which was one of the groups which brought the earlier legal challenge.
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In the lawsuit, Doe's attorneys said "Uber executives violated her a second time by unlawfully obtaining and sharing her medical records from that vicious sexual assault and have failed, as of the date of this filing, to apologize to her for this outrageous conduct".
In the last few weeks two US pension funds representing thousands of council workers, medical staff and teachers have launched fresh legal action alleging Anschutz illegally boosted the value of his giant telecommunications firm, Qwest, and made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, by unlawfully selling shares in the company.
It's notable that the IPT, the oversight court for the U.K.'s intelligence agencies, last year ruled against GCHQ for the time in its fifteen year history (and did so on more than one occasion), deciding, in one ruling, that the agency had acted unlawfully in its data sharing activities with the NSA.
After Swartz returned the hard drives and agreed not to share the journal articles, JSTOR declined to pursue charges itself, but this week the U.S. Attorney's Office in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts charged him with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
"Vaulin is charged with running today's most visited illegal file-sharing website, responsible for unlawfully distributing well over $1bn of copyrighted materials," said assistant attorney general Leslie Caldwell.
"I think that people have negative feelings about it because the shares rose in value, but they were not obtained unlawfully," he said, answering questions this week in a routine appearance before Parliament.
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