Rights group loses mass surveillance appeal in High Court
Liberty's lawyers said the data gathered by the security services and other agencies - under warrants granted by a judge or the home secretary - can include:The apps users have downloaded to their phoneThe group said warrants did not cover collecting data in bulk, meaning it breached human rights law, and the data would be kept on file for searching after any warrant had expired.
But the judges dismissed Liberty's claim, ruling that"the totality of the suite of interlocking safeguards" meant the Act was sound. Sir James Eadie QC, representing the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, and then foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, submitted that the powers provided by IPA"strike an appropriate balance between security and individual privacy", and were of"critical importance to, and are effective in securing, the protection of the public".
"These bulk surveillance powers allow the state to Hoover up the messages, calls and web history of hordes of ordinary people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing."
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