Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures

guest · Jun 12, 2019

Liberty’s challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures
June 11, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/l...urveillance-powers-reveals-shocking-failures/

The challenge, by rights group Liberty, led last month to an initial finding that MI5 had systematically breached safeguards in the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) — breaches the Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, euphemistically couched as “compliance risks” in a carefully worded written statement that was quietly released to parliament.

Today Liberty has put more meat on the bones of the finding of serious legal breaches in how MI5 handles personal data, culled from newly released (but redacted) documents that it says describe the “undoubtedly unlawful” conduct of the UK’s main security service which has been retaining innocent people’s data for years.

“Without seeking to be emotive, I consider that MI5’s use of warranted data… is currently, in effect, in ‘special measures’ and the historical lack of compliance… is of such gravity that IPCO will need to be satisfied to a greater degree than usual that it is ‘fit for purpose'”.”

Liberty comes to the opposite conclusion on that point — emphasizing that warrants for bulk surveillance were issued by senior judges “on the understanding that MI5’s data handling obligations under the IPA were being met — when they were not”.
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deBoetie · Jun 12, 2019

Golly, why am not surprised?

Minimalist · Jul 29, 2019

Human rights group loses High Court challenge against “Snoopers’ Charter”

Human rights group Liberty has lost its latest High Court challenge against the Government’s mass surveillance powers.
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https://techerati.com/news-hub/huma...igh-court-challenge-against-snoopers-charter/

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