The U.K. Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled British intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters illegally gathered and examined information belonging to Privacy International, Al Jazeera reports. The court said the data was obtained through two mass surveillance programs called Bulk Communications Data and Bulk Personal Datasets. "We do not know why MI5 reviewed Privacy International's data, but the fact that it happened at all should raise serious questions for all of us," Privacy International General Counsel Caroline Wilson Palow said in a statement. The tribunal’s ruling comes after the European Court of Human Rights ruled aspects of the U.K.’s secret surveillance programs violated the European Convention on Human Rights.
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