GCHQ Pleads Innocence In UK Web & Phone Monitoring Plans

GCHQ, the UK Government’s secret electronics surveillance body, has finally denied that it was forging ahead with an ambitious plans to monitor web activity and telephone call details of users.  In a public statement, the electronics eavesdropping agency said that a proposed £1 billion “snooping” project at its high-tech complex at Cheltenham was rather tailored to help the agency to align with rapidly changing trends in internet...