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EU court says mass data retention illegal
- desbest 10y agoThe Investigatory Powers Bill will still pass in Britain, if not now, when we leave the EU in 2018.
- wtfishackernews 10y agoThis is still an important step and very significant for other EU members.
- mike-cardwell 10y agoYes. We can no longer rely on an outside authority to police our government for us. We need to find a way to make our own government work for us.
- katpas 10y agoSpeculation, but it would probably depend who was leading the government then and also whether all existing European law had been re-implemented into UK law as part of the process to leave.
- pg_is_a_butt 10y agobrexit
- cm2187 10y ago> Those attacks have reinforced calls from governments for security agencies to be given greater powers to protect citizens How does GCHQ going full Stasi on me going to protect me from some extremist taking the wheel of a lorry and running over people? I find it alarming that a democratic State cannot accept that two private individuals may discuss of something without the State being able to listen and take notes. When you think about it, it is an unprecedented level of intrusion in ordinary people private life.