UK appeals court: RIPA mass surveillance unlawful

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UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful

udges say snooper’s charter lacks adequate safeguards around accessing
personal data

Alan Travis Home affairs editor

Tue 30 Jan 2018 06.38 EST Last modified on Tue 30 Jan 2018 07.53 EST

Appeal court judges have ruled the government’s mass digital surveillance
regime unlawful in a case brought by the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson.

Liberty, the human rights campaign group which represented Watson in the
case, said the ruling meant significant parts of theInvestigatory Powers
Act 2016 – known as the snooper’s charter – are effectively unlawful and
must be urgently changed.

The court of appeal ruling on Tuesday said the powers in the Data Retention
and Investigatory Powers Act 2014, which paved the way for the snooper’s
charter legislation, did not restrict the accessing of confidential
personal phone and web browsing records to investigations of serious crime,
and allowed police and other public bodies to authorise their own access
without adequate oversight.

The three judges said Dripa was “inconsistent with EU law” because of this
lack of safeguards, including the absence of “prior review by a court or
independent administrative authority”.

Responding to the ruling, Watson said: “This legislation was flawed from
the start. It was rushed through parliament just before recess without
proper parliamentary scrutiny.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jan/30/uk-mass-digital-surveillance-regime-ruled-unlawful-appeal-ruling-snoopers-charter



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