Paris — The EU's top court ruled on Tuesday that mass surveillance of phone and internet data is unlawful, in a move that could curb the powers of spying agencies in France and other EU countries.
The outcome of the case, brought by privacy rights advocacy groups, is likely to reverberate outside the EU as governments in the US and China have ramped up surveillance tools in the name of national security...
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