Category: mass surveillance

After ‘Landmark’ Legal Defeat MI5 Will Have to Get Authorisation to Snoop

June 24, 2022
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MI5, MI6, and GCHQ will need “prior independent authorisation,” probably from a judge, before it can access communications data from telecom providers of people they are investigating after a “landmark” case at the High Court in London. The UK civil rights campaign group, Liberty, launched a legal challenge against the powers used by the security services…

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Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology Could Threaten Charter Rights: Lawyers

March 22, 2022
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The use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement without the proper legal safeguards in place threatens privacy, free speech, and peaceful assembly rights protected under the Charter, a technology and human rights lawyer says. Testifying before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics on March 21, Cythnia Khoo said the use of…

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