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

After ‘Landmark’ Legal Defeat MI5 Will Have to Get Authorisation to Snoop
Thames House (L) which houses the London offices of MI5 is seen from Lambeth Bridge in London in this file photo. Cnbrb/CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia Commons
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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 during criminal investigations.

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