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New court judgment finds UK surveillance agencies collected everyone’s communications data unlawfully and in secret, for over a decade
▻https://medium.com/privacy-international/press-release-new-court-judgment-finds-uk-surveillance-agencies-collected-ev

In a highly significant judgment released today, The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has found that the UK’s intelligence agencies were secretly and unlawfully collecting bulk data on people in the UK without adequate safeguards or supervision for over a decade. This is one of the most significant indictments of the secret use of the Government’s mass surveillance powers since Edward Snowden first began exposing the extent of US and UK spying in 2013. The Tribunal, which is tasked with hearing (...)

#GCHQ #écoutes #métadonnées #web #surveillance #Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal_(IPT)

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British spies tapped surveillance database to send a birthday card
▻http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/21/11476968/uk-spy-agencies-bulk-personal-datasets-privacy-international

New documents reveal spies’ casual approach to citizens’ personal data Internal documents from UK spy agencies have revealed how mass surveillance techniques are used to collect dossiers of citizens’ personal data. The files — which include internal memos from MI5, MI6, and GCHQ — show that the intelligence services have been gathering personal information into searchable “bulk personal datasets” or BPDs for years. These files can include travel records, financial data, and communications data (...)

#GCHQ #données #MI5 #Midi_System #surveillance

Interim ruling by European Court condemns massive storage of communications data » EDRi
▻http://edri.org/interim-ruling-european-court-condemns-massive-storage-communications-data

Faced with abuses of the data being stored under the Directive – which it detailed in its own evaluation report – the European Commission did nothing.

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“We believe that the European Commission is now morally obliged to return all financial penalties unjustly imposed as a result of failures of implement the Directive. We urge the Member States to use any returned funds in appropriate projects for the protection of fundamental rights,” adds Joe McNamee.

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