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Re: GCHQ's surveillance, drone assassinations and being an accessory to murder

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 29 Jan 14 7:12 PM | 227 view(s)
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"GCHQ can seek a warrant allowing it to spy on a named person or premises in the UK – but Ripa was not intended to permit untargeted fishing expeditions in the UK."

Huzzah.

British law has some chops.

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Re: GCHQ's surveillance, drone assassinations and being an accessory to murder
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Wed, 29 Jan 14 7:08 PM 		Msg. 15170 of 54959

"The advice warns:

• Ripa does not allow mass interception of contents of communications between two people in the UK, even if messages are routed via a transatlantic cable.

• The interception of bulk metadata – such as phone numbers and email addresses – is a "disproportionate interference" with article 8 of the ECHR.

• The current framework for the retention, use and destruction of metadata is inadequate and likely to be unlawful.

• If the government knows it is transferring data that may be used for drone strikes against non-combatants in countries such as Yemen and Pakistan, that is probably unlawful.

• The power given to ministers to sanction GCHQ's interception of messages abroad "is very probably unlawful"."

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/28/gchq-mass-surveillance-spying-law-lawyer

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