Did GCHQ illegally spy on your emails and phone calls? Use this tool to find out
Privacy International offers up a "historic opportunity" to find out if British intelligence agencies spied on you
Are you worried that intelligence agencies may have been illegally spying on you?
Consumer group Privacy International has created a tool to let you easily find out whether GCHQ targeted your communications.
The tool has been developed in the response to a ruling that GCHQ unlawfully spied on British citizens by allowing the US National Security Agency to harvest all of our data and then share it with UK spooks.
This was taking place for years, up until December 2014.
The ruling means that ANYONE around the world can ask the spy agency if their records were unlawfully shared by the NSA.
Privacy International will collect all of the requests - which involve entering in your name, email address and phone number - from around the world and then submit them to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
If it turns out you HAVE been illegally spied on, you can then request that your records - including emails, phone records and internet communications - are deleted.
The recent ruling was actually the first time in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal’s history that it had ruled AGAINST the actions of security services.
"Intelligence agencies' culture of secrecy has allowed them, for too long, to avoid public accountability.
"Whether it's secret hearings in closed court rooms or committees equipped only with rubber stamps, intelligence agencies like GCHQ have never been forced to answer to the public for their actions," says Privacy International.
"The public have a right to know if they were illegally spied on, and GCHQ must come clean on whose records they hold that they should never have had in the first place,” adds Eric King, Deputy Director of Privacy International, adding that this was a "historic opportunity" to hold GCHQ accountable.
Find out for yourself here.
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