U.K. Government Sued by 7 Internet Companies Over Spying

The U.K. government is being sued by a group of not-for-profit Internet hosting services from around the world over concerns that their networks were accessed to monitor users’ private data and communications.

The providers will ask for a declaration from the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal that spying activities by the Government Communications Headquarters into the “computers and network assets of network providers, their staff and their users is unlawful,” lawyers on behalf of the companies said in documents filed at the tribunal today.