UK information commissioner to examine Snowden disclosures impact

Alan Travis reports:

Britain’s information commissioner, Christopher Graham, has asked his expert advisers to investigate the impact of Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the spy agencies’ mass internet surveillance on the privacy of UK citizens.

The information commissioner’s technology reference panel will in particular look at the privacy concerns raised by the latest disclosures on the capacity of the US National Security Agency and Britain’s spy listening centre, GCHQ, to crack commercial encryption codes, including those used in online banking.

Read more on The Guardian.