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Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

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Re: Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

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Worth pointing out that they can't make an application to the ECtHR until all legal appeals have been exhausted in the UK (Supreme Court?). Otherwise the application will be immediately rejected.

ORG have a lot of very smart legal minds on their team. I've worked with some of them: I'm 100% sure they already know the legal issues.

They'll do this the right way.

Re: Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

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Rant on: Why is it that people use "Prism" as synonym for the whole state of government surveillance? PRISM is one specific program of the NSA, there is much more and there is much worse (eg TEMPORA).

The less focused the effort, the more diluted the message.

Re: Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge

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Worth pointing out that they can't make an application to the ECtHR until all legal appeals have been exhausted in the UK (Supreme Court?). Otherwise the application will be immediately rejected.

They do describe the route they are taking - they asked the government and got referred to the "Investigatory Powers Tribunal" (IPT) but the ECtHR has already decided that the IPT is a bit dubious so they may entertain a direct approach.
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