NOT THE CAT'S MEOW: While UK spies aren't exactly breaking the law while gathering intel on unwitting UK citizens, the laws allowing them to do so are in urgent need of reform, says an independent assessment.
LONDON: Britain's spies are not carrying out illegal mass surveillance of the country's citizens but laws governing their powers to intercept the public's private communications need a massive overhaul, an independent assessment concluded.
The Independent Surveillance Review (ISR) was commissioned by Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister in the previous coalition government, to examine allegations by former US security agency contractor Edward Snowden that British and US spies were conducting vast monitoring programmes.
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