Sharing mass surveillance data was illegal but is now OK, UK tribunal rules

The sharing of mass surveillance data between U.S. and U.K. intelligence services was unlawful before December 2014, but since then it has become legal, a U.K. tribunal has ruled.British intelligence agency GCHQ has had unlawful access to information gathered by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) prior to December, in breach of human rights laws, the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) ruled Friday.“The regime governing the soliciting, receiving, storing and transmitting by U.