GCHQ data collection violated human rights, Strasbourg court rules

Spies breached right to privacy in programme revealed by Edward Snowden, judges say

GCHQ’s methods in carrying out bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and failed to provide sufficient surveillance safeguards, the European court of human rights has ruled in a test case judgment.

But the Strasbourg court found that GCHQ’s regime for sharing sensitive digital intelligence with foreign governments was not illegal.

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