Re: Unfortunately
Technically, the European Court of Human Rights is not related to the EU. Which is a good thing, because it removes a whole layer of potential posturing and complication from this story.
This is indeed good news, but contrary to the Register's opinion, I don't think it will make that big a difference to the UK gov'ts plans. It all hinges on what you mean by "surveillance". The court was talking about a provision to "search people's houses, mail..." - which is pretty damn' intrusive. "Collecting aggregated metadata(TM)" is quite a different kettle of frogs.
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