Seven Internet service and communications providers filed a...

Seven Internet service and communications providers filed a legal complaint Wednesday against the U.K.’s NSA equivalent for “attacking” network infrastructure, said a Wednesday Privacy International news release (http://bit.ly/1sXgee5). The complaint, filed at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (http://bit.ly/TPu6as), said the British government’s attempts to access networks to gather individual’s communications “undermine the trust we all place on the internet and greatly endangers the world’s most powerful tool for democracy and free expression,” said Privacy International Deputy Director Eric King in a statement. “It completely cripples our confidence in the internet economy and threatens the rights of all those who use it.” King said NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters run the activities jointly. Reports of such surveillance activities surfaced partly from documents released by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, said Privacy International.