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The legal framework justifying mass surveillance by UK intelligence agencies needs to be scrapped, according to an independent report commissioned by the UK government. The 373-page document titled “A Question of Trust” defends the controversial bulk collection of online data, but argues that the power to authorize individual surveillance warrants should be transferred from politicians to judges. “The current law is fragmented, obscure, under constant challenge and variable in the protections that it affords the innocent,” said David Anderson, the lead author of the report. “It is time for a clean slate.”
The report criticizes the so-called Snoopers Charter
Moving the powering to authorize individual warrants would, in theory, make it…
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