Privacy International,which has argued that agency’s surveillance breaches human rights, takes case to appeal courtA challenge to GCHQ’s employ of non-specific warrants to authorise the bulk hacking of smartphones, and computers and networks in the UK is starting at the court of appeal.
The case,brought by the campaign group Privacy International (PI), is the latest twist in a protracted battle about both the legality of bulk surveillance and the primacy of civil courts over an intelligence tribunal that operates partly in secret.
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Source: guardian.co.uk