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Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights

posted by martyb on Saturday April 11 2015, @07:37PM   
from the you-can't-make-us dept.

sudo rm -rf writes:

In a recent press release Amnesty International reports:

Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International have announced today they are taking the UK Government to the European Court of Human Rights over its indiscriminate mass surveillance practices. The legal challenge is based on documents made available by the whistle-blower Edward Snowden which revealed mass surveillance practices taking place on an industrial scale.

The organizations filed the joint application to the Strasbourg Court last week after the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), which has jurisdiction over GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, ruled that the UK legal regime for the UK government’s mass surveillance practices was compliant with human rights.

[...] However, the Tribunal held considerable portions of the proceedings in secret.

“It is ridiculous that the government has been allowed to rely on the existence of secret policies and procedures discussed with the Tribunal behind closed doors – to demonstrate that it is being legally transparent,” said Nick Williams [, Amnesty International’s Legal Counsel].

[Editor's Note: The quoted text is reproduced here exactly as it appeared in the original. For those who may not be familiar, there are apparently three different parties involved: (1) Amnesty International, (2) Liberty, and (3) Privacy International.]

• What does Buttplug International have to say? What does Buttplug International have to say? (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @08:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @08:59PM (#169073)

  We've heard from Amnesty International, Liberty International, and Privacy International. But what does Buttplug International have to say about all of this?

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• Re:What does Buttplug International have to say? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @08:03AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2015, @08:03AM (#169576)

  Just read the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ posts and you'll know what they have to say. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is their smileyface depicting a happy customer head in the bottom of the bowl just before exiting through the great white phone to nonexistent paradise.

  Their very comfortable, user friendly, reasonably affordable, and mandatory bPlug™ will be filled with surveillance sensors and a little Semtex®. Do nature's business in non-governmental receptacles and it assplodes giving you instantly fatal renal failure and them an easy cleaning and disposal job.

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