UK’s ‘Snooper’s Charter’ survives court challenge

Bloomberg

The so-called Snooper’s Charter, which allows the UK government to access data from emails and mobile phones, survived a court challenge from a privacy group.
A pair of UK judges dismissed the lawsuit, saying they weren’t persuaded that the legislation is incompatible with European Union rules. Judge Rabinder Singh said the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act included several “safeguards against the possible abuse of power.”
Liberty, a civil rights group, said in the lawsuit that the law breaches citizens’ rights to privacy and free expression. The case centred on UK rules that allow the state to store “vast data sets” taken from electronic devices that mostly contain “information of no relevance to national security,” according to the campaign group.