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The spies in the Government Communications Headquarters UK would assure that they are following rules and regulations, but it doesn’t mean that each and everything is completely moving on its perfect direction. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has verified that GCHQ has broken the data keeping rules when they examined on civil rights groups in South Africa and Egypt. The IPT legally seized the communication of these two points. But, the data kept for longer time than it should be or they didn’t keep in mind regarding their policies for that data.

The IPT confirmed that rules and regulations have been broken in handling of data that was intercepted but they said that initial collection or primary information looking according to law. This action made for Non-Governmental Organizations, Privacy International and Amnesty International. The American Civil Liberties Union and some other organizations also claimed that their data communications intercepted by intelligence agencies. But there was no strength of character in most of the cases. It means that either they didn’t spy or no rules have been broken for them. But in the case of South Africa and Egypt, they did not adopt necessary steps for (EIPR) Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and (LRC) Legal Resources Centre for South Africa. The IPT also stressed that GCHQ did not follow the right internal process. The IPT said that the EIPR’s communications was intercepted lawfully but it is found that data stored for a longer time than it should be, it is also said that in the case of South African NGO, the data intercepted lawfully but GCHQ didn’t follow its internal policies.