Surveillance state

Last autumn, the Bureau launched a legal challenge in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to the UK government’s surveillance practices. The case argues that bulk collection of communications data using methods such as internet cable tapping, which were exposed by the US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, breaches human rights law.

Storage of meta-data (which details who is contacting whom and when, but not the content of the message) by the government makes it harder for journalists to guarantee their sources’ confidentiality.

George Galloway, Tom Newton Dunn and others: A list of current legal challenges to UK surveillance regime