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>> If the UK still was in the EU, this would have never happened. I wouldn't be so sure about that. The original act passed in 2016 and was already an abominat
by basisword 3y ago
>> If the UK still was in the EU, this would have never happened.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The original act passed in 2016 and was already an abomination.
- Symbiote 3y agoThe EU court ruled against this law in 2020: https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/eu-court-rules-users-data-cant-be-collected-by-isps-for-surveillance https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/en/news/eu-court-rule...
- tgv 3y agoIndeed. A state can pass whatever legislation, but it's not the highest authority in EU member states. States still have to obey the various agreements, treaties and rulings, although enforcing that falls back onto the member states themselves. So a sufficiently determined government (Poland/PiS, Hungary) can still get away with a lot.
- ben_w 3y agoIndeed; that even the Welsh Ambulance Service was ever given nationwide no-warrant-needed access to internet connection records still irks me. However, the 2016 act was ruled incompatible with EU law: https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/2018/975.html https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/2018/975.html