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World News See other World News Articles Title: European Court of Human Rights Rules Mass Spying Was Illegal Snowden Vindicated. Renewed calls for pardoning whistleblowers after GCHQ's communications trawling officially ruled unlawful. In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has declared that bulk communications gathering by Britain’s GCHQ spy agency was illegal, proving whistleblower Edward Snowden right, and prompting more calls for the former NSA contractor to be pardoned. The court noted that there were “fundamental deficiencies” in the GCHQ’s interception of communications, namely that politician or indedepent body had authorised the data gathering, that search terms GCHQ used to trawl through the data had not been included in a warrant application, and that individual names, email addresses, and phone numbers had not been authorised to be used by the spooks. Snowden revealed that the GCHQ was scouring all online and telephone data in the UK via a program code named ‘Tempora’. Former editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, who had to destroy hard drives given to him by Snowden in 2013 before the government seized them, lauded the ruling: Snowden responded, saying that he couldn’t have done what he did without journalists and human rights lawyers: Edward Snowden @Snowden Without journalists to tell the story, the public would not have known about it. Without human right lawyers defending that public, the courts would not have cared about it. Without those courts, politicians would still be denying it. In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has declared that bulk communications gathering by Britain’s GCHQ spy agency was illegal, proving whistleblower Edward Snowden right, and prompting more calls for the former NSA contractor to be pardoned. The court noted that there were “fundamental deficiencies” in the GCHQ’s interception of communications, namely that politician or indedepent body had authorised the data gathering, that search terms GCHQ used to trawl through the data had not been included in a warrant application, and that individual names, email addresses, and phone numbers had not been authorised to be used by the spooks. Snowden revealed that the GCHQ was scouring all online and telephone data in the UK via a program code named ‘Tempora’. Former editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, who had to destroy hard drives given to him by Snowden in 2013 before the government seized them, lauded the ruling: Only your patronage to our store is what keeps this beacon of truth lit in the controlled-narrative darkness. Snowden responded, saying that he couldn’t have done what he did without journalists and human rights lawyers: I could not have done this alone. The ruling led to new calls for Snowden, still hiding out in Moscow, as well as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, languishing in prison, to be given their lives back: Andrew Mcguiness @Cov3raa The tide is turning. @POTUS should be on the right side of history: pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange now: In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights has declared that bulk communications gathering by Britain’s GCHQ spy agency was illegal, proving whistleblower Edward Snowden right, and prompting more calls for the former NSA contractor to be pardoned. The court noted that there were “fundamental deficiencies” in the GCHQ’s interception of communications, namely that politician or indedepent body had authorised the data gathering, that search terms GCHQ used to trawl through the data had not been included in a warrant application, and that individual names, email addresses, and phone numbers had not been authorised to be used by the spooks. Snowden revealed that the GCHQ was scouring all online and telephone data in the UK via a program code named ‘Tempora’. Former editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, who had to destroy hard drives given to him by Snowden in 2013 before the government seized them, lauded the ruling: Only your patronage to our store is what keeps this beacon of truth lit in the controlled-narrative darkness. Snowden responded, saying that he couldn’t have done what he did without journalists and human rights lawyers: The ruling led to new calls for Snowden, still hiding out in Moscow, as well as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, languishing in prison, to be given their lives back: The GCHQ continues to spy on British citizens, as we reported last November it has been monitoring the movement of British people minute by minute to check if they are complying with government restrictions. According to reports, the spy agency embedded a ‘cell’ within Number 10 Downing Street in order to provide Prime Minister Boris Johnson with real time information pertaining to the public’s movements. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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