UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court

judgecorp writes "Privacy International is mounting a legal challenge against snooping by the UK government's intelligence agency GCHQ. But the case will be held in secret The group is challenging UK government access to Privacy, and the UK's own Tempora system, arguing that both allow 'indiscriminate' snooping because they operate in secrecy with a lack of legal oversight. All well and good — but the authorities have ruled that Privacy's challenge must be heard by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which hears cases in secret and is under no obligation to explain or justify its verdicts."

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Re:Going nowhere

[cold fjord]

I think you've made it quite clear in the past that you are indifferent to the prospect of the mass slaughter of your fellow citizens, and you aren't alone in that regard. You don't really have much to offer in the discussion other than the hope that they will die well, and that no minion of the government pass near your phone number. Most other people in society are able to make more nuanced judgments about what the government might do that has no meaningful impact on personal liberty.