Campaigners are claiming that large parts of the Snoopers’ Charter are effectively illegal after the Court of Appeal backed a challenge by MP Tom Watson and Liberty. The rights group, representing the labour deputy leader in a long-running legal battle with the government, received a boost in December 2016 when the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that the DRIPA legislation “exceeds the limits of what is strictly necessary and cannot be considered to be justified within a democratic society.” That law was the forerunner to the infamous Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) passed by parliament last year, and contains many of its provisions.

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