UK spying on its own violated their rights, says court, vindicating Edward Snowden
The European Court of Human Rights confirms that the UK’s bulk interception practices were unlawful for decades
25 May 2021 - 17:34
Geneva — The UK’s bulk interception of its own citizens’ communications in the wake of revelations by whistle-blower Edward Snowden violated their privacy laws, Europe’s human-rights tribunal has ruled.
The UK government’s programme “had been authorised by the secretary of state, and not by a body independent of the executive”, that lacked the “end-to-end safeguards” to narrow the scope of the data being intercepted, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said in a decision published on Tuesday...
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