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Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee has requested an urgent report from listening agency GCHQ on its links to a secret US spy programme.
Committee chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind expects the report by Monday.
This follows claims, in the Guardian, that GCHQ has been covertly gathering data from leading internet firms in the US via America's Prism programme.
Sir Malcolm said he was "encouraged" by GCHQ's statement that it operated to a "strict legal and policy framework".
The Guardian says it has obtained documents showing that Britain's secret listening post had access to the Prism system, set up by America's National Security Agency (NSA), since at least June 2010.
The newspaper said that the Prism programme appeared to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to circumvent the formal legal process required to obtain personal material, such as emails, photographs and videos, from internet companies based outside the UK.
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