British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance – NYTimes.com.
LONDON — The court that oversees Britain’s intelligence agencies ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people’s cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal.
The ruling, on a complaint brought by privacy advocates and rights groups like Amnesty International, is one of the first by a high-level court in any case linked to revelations by Mr. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor. But it is unlikely to end the debate over whether intelligence agencies should have access to online communications.
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