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THE mass data collection regimes of Britain’s spy agencies lack proper oversight and are unlawful, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Campaign group Privacy International is asking the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to review its previous judgement, which found that the regimes had been unlawful but ceased to be when their existence was publicly acknowledged in 2015.
New information from electronic spying agency GCHQ shows that previous evidence on bulk personal datasets directions was “materially misleading,” Privacy International argues.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped