European court of human rights rules that GCHQ's bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy
Judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden's whistleblowing revelations — GCHQ's methods for bulk interception of online communications violated …
Yet another huge vindication of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and the reporting it enabled: The European Court of Human Rights rules the mass surveillance program of GCHQ (the UK version of NSA) illegal: violating both privacy rights and press freedom. https://www.theguardian.c…
“GCHQ's methods for bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy and the regime for collection of data was “not in accordance with the law”, the grand chamber of the European court of human rights has ruled.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...