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> the UK, is trying to wriggle itself out of the human rights laws of the EU as they're too strong and (apparently) being abused It's worth pointing out again
by estel 15y ago
> the UK, is trying to wriggle itself out of the human rights laws of the EU as they're too strong and (apparently) being abused
It's worth pointing out again that the European Convention on and European Court of Human Rights are entirely and completely distinct from the EU and any federalisation coming from Brussels.
Not that this decision from the European Court of Justice (which is an EU institution) has anything to do with Human Rights anyway (other than perhaps insofar as the ECHR already stipulates the right of privacy).
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- mattmanser 15y agoAs far as I understand it it's far more complicated than you make out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_of_the_European_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_o... Also they did rule that this was incompatible with the fundamental right to privacy (final sentence, rest preserved for context): the Court finds that the injunction in question would require Scarlet to actively monitor all the data relating to each of its customers in order to prevent any infringement of intellectual-property rights. It follows that the injunction would impose general monitoring, something which is incompatible with the E-Commerce Directive. Moreover, such an injunction would not respect the applicable fundamental rights.