Deadline to amend UK surveillance laws
High Court judges have given the UK government six months to revise parts of its Investigatory Powers Act.
Rules governing the British surveillance system must be changed quickly because they are "incompatible" with European laws, said judges.
The government has been given a deadline of 1 November this year to make the changes.
The court decision came out of legal action by human rights group Liberty.
Holding data
It started its legal challenge to the Act saying clauses that allow personal data to be gathered and scrutinised violated citizens' basic rights to privacy.
The court did not agree that the Investigatory Powers Act called for a "general and indiscriminate retention" of data on individuals, as Liberty claimed.
However, the judges did call on the government to speed up the process of updating laws to ensure they were compatible with European Union legislation.
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