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Snooping may not be legal
The intelligence service, at their third time of asking get their activities legalised, but the EU's Court rules that mass surveillance remains illegal. Also access to retained data must be supervised by an independent review, and can only be requested in pursuit of a serious crime.
- The CJEU was asked by the UK High Court for guidance on the legality of the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act. Its judgement was reported by the Independent and the Guardian
Snooper's charter dealt blow after EU's highest court rules 'indiscriminate' government retention of emails is illegalThe so-called snooper’s charter is set to face a series of new legal challenges after the EU’s highest court ruled government’s “general and indiscriminate retention” of emails is illegal. Only targeted information gathering is justified, the European Court of Justice said, boosting the case against the sweeping collection of emails, text messages and internet data.
EU's highest court delivers blow to UK snooper's charterIndiscriminate collection of emails is illegal, court rules in response to challenge originally brought by David Davis- Commented on by Martha Spurrier of Liberty
Surveillance has gone too far. The jig is up | Martha SpurrierRather than fight the EU court ruling on the Investigatory Powers Act, the government should move to targeted surveillance that doesn’t sweep up everybody’s private lives- The Open Rights Group comments, a detailed look at the ruling and concludes that Mass surveillance is illegal, access to retained data must be supervised by an independent review, and access to retained data can only be requested in pursuit of a serious crime.
EU Court slams UK data retention surveillance regimeHere’s our quick overview of what the CJEU has told the UK and Sweden they must do to fix requirements for data retention.- Even the Register covers the story
Landmark EU ruling: Legality of UK's Investigatory Powers Act challengedWant to eyeball retained data? You need a decent reason- as does the Daily Mash
Right to have government read our emails cruelly snatched away by EUTHE cherished British right for government spies to have full access to our emails has been snatched away by the despotic European Court.- And Labour's recently appointed Shadow spokesperson finally finds her voice and contradicts her predecessors
- Dianne was appointed Shadow Home Affairs spokesperson in the light of Jeremey Corbyn's second leadership ballot victory; lets hope that she prevails.
Snooper's Charter is 'unlawful' and must be overhauled, Labour's Dianne Abbott saysLabour’s Diane Abbott has called for a major rethink on Theresa May’s snooping laws, which the European Court has indicated are unlawful. Ms Abbott slammed the Conservative legislation as a "serious erosion of our rights and liberties" and called for new exemptions.
