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As Olympic curling surveillance grows, Britain faces infraction

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The curling controversy at the Winter Olympics widened Sunday as increased surveillance of matches resulted in the removal of a stone thrown by the British men's team for ...
Courthouse News Service

Britain must take up foreigners' surveillance complaints, European rights court rules

In a win for privacy advocates, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Britain must scrutinize allegations of government surveillance even if they are brought by people living outside its ...
AOL

Britain has become a surveillance state, and it’s not making us safer

“It’s not that if we spot you on the screen, we’ll clamp you in irons and take you away,” the police officer reassures me next to the facial-recognition van. It’s May 2026 in Cornmarket Street, Oxford ...
Digital Journal

European court rules against Britain over mass surveillance

Europe's top rights court ruled Thursday that Britain's programme of mass surveillance, revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden as part of his sensational leaks on US spying, violated people's right ...