GCHQ boosts powers to launch mass data hacking

Ben Wallace, the security minister, said Britain’s intelligence agencies would greatly increase their use of ‘equipment interference’.The UK’s intelligence agencies are to significantly increase their use of large-scale data hacking after claiming that more targeted operations are being rendered obsolete by technology.The move, which has alarmed civil liberty groups, will see an expansion in what is known as the “bulk equipment interference (EI) regime” &ndash