Campaigners call for a crackdown on police stop-and-search powers
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Campaigners have called for a crackdown on stop-and-search powers amid fears they could be extended under a controversial policing Bill.
Edward Snowden Hails EU Court Ruling as Progress on Acknowledging Devastation of Mass Surveillance
On 5/25/21 at 5:01 PM EDT
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden hailed a new ruling out of a European court on intelligence-gathering practices, emphasizing how far we ve come on acknowledging the devastating consequences of mass surveillance. It is hard to overemphasize how far we ve come from the pre-2013 world when even the highest judicial authorities are beginning to acknowledge the devastating consequence of two decades mass surveillance, Snowden tweeted in response to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights recent decision.
On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights in
Revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden (pictured) showed that GCHQ and its U.S. counterpart were sucking up vast amounts of communications.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. (Photo via CherryX/Wikipedia)
STRASBOURG, France (CN) Europe’s top rights court found on Tuesday that a bulk data collection program in the United Kingdom violated citizens’ right to privacy.
The European Court of Human Rights held that British intelligence and security organization Government Communications Headquarters, commonly known as GCHQ, illegally intercepted communications data and failed to properly safeguard it.
“The court holds unanimously that there has been a violation of Article 8 of the Convention,” ECHR President Róbert Spanó told an empty courtroom during a virtual hearing. The court was established in 1959 by the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the civil and political rights of Europeans.