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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.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 11 2015, @11:35PM
I don't get it.
0 + 5 + 190 = 195
195 != 1984
What are you trying to say?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mtrycz on Sunday April 12 2015, @12:47AM
You mentioned China and Korea.
I mentioned the Five Eyes.
Then I just went with the flow saying that *all* of the governments (can't remember the exact number, but 190 seemed like a ood estimate) want to do it, and will do it as soon as they are able to (at least those that are not doing it yet).
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