Stephen Fry demands the end of mass surveillance

Many celebrities have joined with 40 free speech groups in a bid to end mass surveillance by the British GHCQ and the American NSA who use programmes to crack online encryption and widely collect personal data of its citizens, reports The Guardian.

Kirsty Hughes, chief executive of Index on Censorship said: ‘Snooping and surveillance on this scale is not only an invasion of privacy, it also undermines the basis of democracy and free speech.”