article_snippet: There is a list of software packages which can be used to try to thwart GCHQ and the intelligence agencies.
article_snippet: GCHQ has also warned that some companies had begun advertising internet products that were supposedly ‘Snowden compliant’.
article_snippet: But last week, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee cleared GCHQ of carrying out mass surveillance of the public using vast trawls of internet traffic.
article_snippet: Devastatingly, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee said the central claims made by the Guardian newspaper - that GCHQ had Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committeeblanket coverage’ of web communications and was rooting indiscriminately through private messages - were wrong.
article_snippet: In reality, Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee said, GCHQ can access only a small part of the web and operatives see only a ‘tiny fraction’ of the messages collected after a sophisticated filtering process.