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> On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)—in Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom—upheld a 2018 ruling by the court's lower chamber,
by threatofrain 5y ago
> On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)—in Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom—upheld a 2018 ruling by the court's lower chamber, determining that mass surveillance by the British government breached human rights laws under the European Convention aimed at safeguarding Europeans' rights to privacy.
> The court's 17 judges unanimously agreed that the mining of billions of calls, emails, text messages and other data by British intelligence services lacked the independent scrutiny to protect the right to privacy and freedom of expression.
> However, most of the judges allowed for the continued sharing of intercepted digital communications with foreign governments or intelligence agencies.
- vmception 5y agoUseless then
- agotterer 5y agoSounds like it. Now they just need to make a call to another country in the Five Eyes to get the data.
- vmception 5y agoAPI Firehose more like The real question is whether they would use websockets or Protobuf
- willcipriano 5y agoGovernment. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night. My money is on FTP.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Government. At best it's REST but good chance it's SOAP or scripts doing FTP transfers of huge CSV files in the night. CSV? Fixed-field-width EBCDIC text.
- chasd00 5y agoand about 1/3 getting printed out and faxed and then data entry clerks keying in what comes out of the fax machine on the far side.
- ben_w 5y agoIf they were doing that I wouldn’t even mind too much, because that would force them to focus on the important stuff instead of drag-netting everyone.
- sebow 5y agoYes but things can be done (albeit hardly now). If people realise and pressure legislation that govs and entities can't spy even through proxies(other government(agencies) and companies) then we should really see more progress in this regard. This is also debated right now in US, though i feel it slipped a bit from the european radar