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UK GHCQ Is Allowed To Hack (bbc.co.uk)

Posted by yaelk on from the hackers-gonna-hack dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A security tribunal has just decreed that hacking by the UK security agency GCHQ is legal. [The case was launched after revelations by Edward Snowden about the extent of US and UK spying. Campaigners Privacy International claimed GCHQ's hacking operations were too intrusive]. The legal challenge that they were violating European law was rejected.

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  1. Makes a lot of sense by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Government grants itself authority to break the law.

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    1. Re:Makes a lot of sense by Richard_at_work · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, this ruling was issued by a panel of senior judges, not the government. In the UK, senior judges are independent of the government.

  2. I for one welcome the return of the Star Chamber. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One set of rules for us. Another set of rules for them. If they are allowed to break laws to find civillians who are breaking laws then why are civillians not allowed to break laws to find officials who are breaking laws?

    I feel ashamed that the law in the UK has come so far away from protecting people / serving justice and so far closer to being a weapon of oppression.

  3. Re:I for one welcome the return of the Star Chambe by gweihir · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The fascist mind-set expressed in these things assumes as absolute truth that the "authorities" are always right and do not need oversight by the citizens. A brief look in history shows how very much wrong that idea is and how often it leads to incredible evil.

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  4. Re:Corrupt through and through by blue9steel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hence the elite's heavy investments in internal security and autonomous weaponry.