UK: Government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful

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02/2018

UK: Government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful

In a case brought against UK government’s mass digital surveillance regime which was spearheaded by the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act, 2014 (DRIPA), a 3 judge Bench of Sir Geoffrey Vos, Lord Justice Patten and Lord Justice Lloyd Jones held that such a regime is unlawful as it did not restrict the accessing of confidential personal phone and web browsing records to investigations of serious crime, and allowed public bodies to grant themselves access to such information even when no serious crime had occurred.

Full News Link:- http://blog.scconline.com/post/2018/01/31/uk-appeals-court-holds-governments-mass-digital-surveillance-regime-unlawful/

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