The highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has delivered a blow to anti-surveillance campaigners in Europe by failing to find that bulk interception of digital comms is inherently incompatible with human rights law which enshrines individual rights to privacy and freedom of expression. Governments in Europe that fail to do so are opening such laws up to further legal challenge under the European Convention on Human Rights. The Grand Chamber ruling also confirms that the UK's historic surveillance regime under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (aka RIPA) was unlawful because it lacked the necessary safeguards.
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LONDON Europe s top human rights court ruled Tuesday that British mass surveillance and intelligence-gathering practices breached human rights laws, in a partial victory for civil rights groups that had challenged the practices exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights upheld a 2018 ruling by the court s lower chamber that found some aspects of British surveillance activities violated provisions in the European Convention on Human Rights aimed at safeguarding Europeans rights to privacy.
The court s 17 judges unanimously agreed that wasn t enough independent scrutiny of processes used by British intelligence services to sift through billions of calls, emails, text messages and other data and digital co
The highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has delivered a blow to anti-surveillance campaigners in Europe by failing to find that bulk interception of digital comms is inherently incompatible with human rights law — which enshrines individual rights to privacy and freedom of expression. However today’s Grand Chamber judgement underscores the […]