The UK's newest surveillance laws may have to change after a legal challenge from Tom Watson MP found 2014's Dripa law was illegal
January 30th, 2018 By Matt Burgess
In December 2016, the EU's highest court ruled that governments keeping emails and electronic communications on a "general an indiscriminate" basis was illegal. In doing so, it pushed the UK's controversial surveillance laws back into the country's highest court.
Now, in what will be seen as a fresh blow for the government's so-called Snooper's Charter, the UK's Court of Appeal has ruled previous surveillance law was illegal. After years of legal wrangling the court said the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 (Dripa) didn't put restrictions on the access to reams of data collected about people in the UK.
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