Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (England) - Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Date: 02/06/2015

Subject: The Investigatory Powers Tribunal established that mass surveillance and data transmission by the British authorities according to American PRISM and Upstream programs was in contrast with articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR until its decision of 5 December 2014, with which the Tribunal revealed the claimants’ disclosures and the rules and procedures of such activity

Parties: Liberty (The National Council of Civil Liberties) & Others v. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs & Others

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy - Art. 8 Personal data: fairly processing - Personal data: consent - Personal data: access - Personal data: rectification - Personal data: independent authority - Art. 11 Freedom of expression

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