UK's surveillance powers to be considered by Europe's highest human rights court

European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber to consider UK’s bulk surveillance powers for first time ‘We need to be protected from intrusive and over-powerful states that think nothing of secretly harvesting and sharing vast amounts of our private data and communications’ - Lucy Claridge The UK Government’s bulk surveillance powers will be examined by the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights this week, the latest stage in a long-running legal battle over the UK’s unlawful use of previously-secret surveillance powers and its sharing of massive amounts of private