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title: Chaos Computer Club files complaint against GCHQ
date: 2014-07-02 09:00:00
updated: 2014-07-02 10:03:48
author: erdgeist
tags: update, pressemitteilung
Together with global Internet service and communications providers the Chaos Computer Club files complaint to end GCHQ attacks.
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Seven Internet service and communications providers from around the
world filed a legal complaint today, calling for an end to GCHQ’s
attacking and exploitation of network infrastructure in order to
unlawfully gain access to potentially millions of people’s private
communications.
The complaint, filed by Riseup (US), GreenNet (UK), Greenhost
(Netherlands), Mango (Zimbabwe), Jinbonet (Korea), May First/People Link
(US), and the Chaos Computer Club (Germany), along with Privacy
International, is the first time that internet and communication
providers have taken collective action against GCHQ’s targeting,
attacking and exploitation of networks maintaining communications
infrastructure.
Lodged today in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the claimants assert
that GCHQ’s attacks on providers are not only illegal, but are
destructive, undermine the goodwill the organisations rely on, and
damage the trust in security and privacy that makes the Internet such a
crucial tool of communication and empowerment. The claimants are
demanding an end to such exploitation of Internet and communication
services, the targeting of their systems administrators and protections
for their users whose rights may have been infringed.
### Links:
- \[0\] [Press statement
(pdf)](/system/uploads/151/original/GCHQ_attacking_providers_final_PR.pdf)
- \[1\] [Full test of the final grounds
(pdf)](/system/uploads/152/original/2014_07_01_Final_grounds.pdf)
- \[2\] [Complaint at the European Court of Human
Rights](http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2014/gchq-egmr)
- \[3\] [NSA-GCHQ Snowden leaks: A glossary of the key
terms](http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25085592)
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