UK: Number of data interception requests to GCHQ 'possibly too large', says official

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"Interception communications commissioner Sir Anthony May says requests amount to 570,000 a year...[and that] legislation governing the collection of communication data by Britain's eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, is complex."

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