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UK Security Agencies Have Unlawfully Collected Data for 17 Years, Says Court

By CircleID Reporter
  • October 17, 2016, 6:42 pm PDT
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“British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade, top judges have ruled,” according to a report published today in The Guardian. “The ruling said the regime governing the collection of bulk communications data (BCD)—the who, where, when and what of personal phone and web communications—failed to comply with article 8 protecting the right to privacy of the European convention of human rights (ECHR) between 1998, when it started, and 4 November 2015, when it was made public.”

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