WIEDER AND GUARNIERI v. THE UNITED KINGDOM JUDGMENT longer than permitted in breach of Article 8 of the Convention. In respect of another applicant organisation, the IPT found that communications from an email address associated with it had been intercepted and selected for examination under a section 8(4) warrant. Although it was satisfied the interception was lawful and proportionate and that selection for examination was proportionate, the IPT found that the internal procedure for selection had not been followed and consequently there had been a breach of the complainant’s Article 8 rights. 10. The IPT made no finding that the communications of any of the complainants in the Liberty proceedings had been obtained by US authorities pursuant to Prism and/or Upstream, and unlawfully shared with the United Kingdom. C. The Privacy International campaign 11. There followed a worldwide campaign by Privacy International, one of the applicants in the Liberty proceedings, through which it sought to encourage individuals to lodge complaints with the IPT. 12. The applicants in the present case lodged applications with the IPT with the aid of a standard application form made available on Privacy International’s website. They alleged that the respondent Government and/or the security services had breached Articles 8 and 10 of the Convention because they had and/or continued to intercept, solicit, obtain, process, use, store and/or retain their information and/or communications; and because their information and/or communications were accessible to the respondent Government as part of datasets maintained wholly or in part by other Governments’ intelligence agencies; and that the Government and/or security services might have acted unlawfully under domestic law by intercepting, soliciting, accessing, obtaining, processing, storing or retaining their information and/or communications in breach of their own internal policies and procedures. 13. Over 600 applications of a similar nature were received by the IPT. Of these complainants, 294 were resident in the United Kingdom. 14. The IPT listed the first ten applications (which included those lodged by the present applicants) for hearing to enable issues to be addressed as to whether the claims should be investigated. The applicants, together with four other complainants, were represented in the proceedings; the other four complainants were neither represented nor identified, except to the extent that it could be said that three were resident in the United States of America and one was resident in the United Kingdom. 3