News UK 'snoopers charter' claimed to break EU law

Also from el Reg:

The data retention regimes in operation or preparation in at least ten European states are unlawful, and breach the European Convention on Human Rights, according to a legal opinion released today. According to the opinion, comissioned by Privacy International from law firm Covington & Burling, the European Commission's framework directive on the retention of communications data is in itself unlawful, which means that any state in the process of actually implementing it may have to think again.

In the UK, this could add another chapter to the tortuous and - so far - unfortunate history of the 'snooper's charter, which is currently before Parliament as a series of Statutory Instruments. Although a little watered down from its previous version, this still requires widespread retention of data as regards web sites visited, email addresses, phone calls and mobile phone location data, and still gives numerous public authorities access to that data.

According to the opinion, it's precisely this scattergun approach that breaches the Convention on Human Rights

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and you brits say you dont want to be part of the EU....


you sure dont mind when it suits you. Join the dark side, you know you want to....

/rantage