Tag: Investigatory Powers Act
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Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech
A company repeatedly endorsed by ministers backing the UK’s Online Safety Bill was warned by its lawyers that its technology could breach …
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Mass surveillance must have meaningful safeguards, says ECHR
While the regime used for obtaining comms data from communication service providers was found to have violated Articles 8 (right to privacy …
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UK High Court rejects human rights challenge to bulk snooping powers
Civil liberties campaign group Liberty has lost its latest challenge to controversial UK surveillance powers that allow state agencies to …
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Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures
A legal challenge to the UK’s controversial mass surveillance regime has revealed shocking failures by the main state intelligence …
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Europe’s highest human rights court to hear challenge to UK’s bulk surveillance regime
Hence now pushing for an overarching judgement from judges in the Grand Chamber which — if it goes their way — could force the UK to …
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UK’s mass surveillance regime violated human rights law, finds ECHR
The complaints before the ECHR focused on three different surveillance regimes: 1) The bulk interception of communications (aka ‘mass …
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Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
The Australian government wants to force companies to help it get at suspected criminals’ data. If they can’t, it would jail people for …
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UK surveillance regime dealt another blow in court
The UK government has suffered yet another defeat in the courts over a surveillance regime that critics have dubbed a ‘Snooper’s …
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UK mass surveillance regime dealt another blow in court
The UK government has suffered yet another defeat in the courts over a surveillance regime that critics have dubbed a ‘Snooper’s …
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