GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules

Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules by maaarghk on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:08AM (#10392623)

This is a reversal of the Wilson doctrine. [0]

A few months ago there was a leak [1] which suggested GCHQ were spying on Scottish MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) and MEPs.

Now, of course, they can continue to spy on Scottish elected officials without anyone being able to claim unfair treatment of MPs over others.

Edit: The other argument is of course that before this ruling, MPs were "above the law" so to speak. So in that sense it is a bit of a re-balancing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Doctrine

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-3365...

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Re:GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules by spacecowboy_lon on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:31AM (#10392701)

I remember chat to a HOC worker and there was some disgruntlement that the staff had to have Developed Vetting (ie TS clearance) and there is very little checks made on MP's

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