UK security agencies unlawfully collected data for 17 years, court rules

["David Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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From: Brian Randell <brian.randell () newcastle ac uk>
Subject: UK security agencies unlawfully collected data for 17 years, court rules
Date: October 17, 2016 at 12:35:36 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Brian Randell <brian.randell () newcastle ac uk>

Hi Dave:

For IP if you wish.

Cheers

Brian


From The Guardian


> Investigatory powers tribunal says secret collection of citizens’ personal data breached human rights law
>
> The judges said both the collection and holding of personal data breached people’s right to privacy. 
> British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, 
> including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade, top judges have ruled.
>
> The investigatory powers tribunal, which is the only court that hears complaints against MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, said the 
> security services operated secret regimes to collect vast amounts of personal communications data, tracking 
> individual phone and web use and large datasets of confidential personal information, without adequate safeguards or 
> supervision for more than 10 years.
>
> The ruling said the regime governing the collection of bulk communications data (BCD) – the who, where, when and what 
> of personal phone and web communications – failed to comply with article 8 protecting the right to privacy of the 
> European convention of human rights (ECHR) between 1998, when it started, and 4 November 2015, when it was made 
> public.
>
> It said the holding of bulk personal datasets (BPD) – which might include medical and tax records, individual 
> biographical details, commercial and financial activities, communications and travel data – also failed to comply 
> with article 8 for the decade it was in operation until its public avowal in March 2015.
>
> “The BPD regime failed to comply with the ECHR principles which we have above set out throughout the period prior to 
> its avowal in March 2015. The BCD regime failed to comply with such principles in the period prior to its avowal in 
> November 2015, and the institution of a more adequate system of supervision as at the same date,” the ruling 
> concluded.
<snip>

Full story at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/uk-security-agencies-unlawfully-collected-data-for-decade

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