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GCHQ’s mass data-sharing violated right to privacy, court rules

Judgment follows legal challenge begun in 2013 after Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing revelations

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.

It also found the bulk interception regime contained insufficient protections for confidential journalistic material but said the decision to operate a bulk interception regime did not of itself violate the European convention on human rights.

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