A group of humans rights organisations have announced that they will be taking the British government to the European Court of Human Right over its indiscriminate mass surveillance of communications.
Amnesty International, Liberty, Privacy International and Bytes for All, along with several other partners will pursue the case based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about the mass-scale spying programmes used by the UK and US known as Prism and Tempora. They believe the programmes contravene British citizens’ rights to privacy and freedom of expression, as enshrined in Articles 8 and 10 in the European Convention of Human Rights.
By: Katie Collins,
