Civil rights group Liberty is calling for an investigation into whether British intelligence services unlawfully accessed its communications.
Documents leaked by a US whistleblower suggest GCHQ is able to conduct mass surveillance of the British public.
Liberty believes its staff may have been targeted and wants security services watchdog the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to investigate.
The foreign secretary has said security agencies uphold the law at all times.
'Out-of-control snooping'Evidence leaked by Edward Snowden to the Guardian suggests that GCHQ is able to tap into and store internet data from fibre optic cables for 30 days in an operation called Tempora.
And GCHQ is also said to have accessed information about UK citizens from the US National Security Agency's monitoring programme, Prism.
GCHQ has insisted it is "scrupulous" in complying with the law.
But Liberty said it believed its electronic communications and those of its staff "may have been unlawfully accessed by the likes of the Security Services and GCHQ".
It has issued a claim in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal contending that rights "under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (the right to respect for one's private and family life, home and correspondence) have been breached".
Liberty's legal director James Welch said: "Those demanding the Snoopers' Charter seem to have been indulging in out-of-control snooping even without it - exploiting legal loopholes and help from Uncle Sam.
"No-one suggests a completely unpoliced internet but those in power cannot swap targeted investigations for endless monitoring of the entire globe."
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