'UK-US mass surveillance threat to human rights’

The report also said there is compelling evidence that Washington’s intelligence agencies and their allies including Britain are collecting data “on a massive scale,” adding that the US-UK operations encompass “numerous persons against whom there is no ground for suspicion of any wrongdoing.”

In addition, the report said the assembly is deeply concerned by the fact that intelligence agencies have intentionally weakened Internet security by creating so-called back doors, which bypass normal authentication to gain access to a computer or its data, and systematically exploiting weakness in security standards and implementation.


The report said the back doors can easily be exploited by “terrorists and cyber-terrorists or other criminals,” urging a greater use of encryption.

The assembly is also worried over the use of “secret laws, secret courts and secret interpretations of such laws” to justify mass surveillance, saying the legislation is “very poorly scrutinized.”


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