UK has six months to rewrite snooper's charter, high court rules
by Ian Cobain from Technology | The Guardian on (#3NV3Y)
Judges say Investigatory Powers Act is incompatible with EU law after legal challenge by Liberty
The British government must rewrite its mass data surveillance legislation because it is incompatible with European law, the high court has ruled.
Judges have given ministers and officials six months to redraft the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, labelled the snooper's charter by critics, following a crowdfunded challenge by the human rights group Liberty.