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Court finds GCHQ breached citizen s privacy with its bulk surveillance regime ZDNet 2 hrs ago
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The UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) used bulk interception to unlawfully breach citizens privacy and free expression rights, Europe s highest human rights court has ruled.
The ruling is the culmination of three lawsuits that had accused the GCHQ s bulk interception regime of being incompatible with the right for people to have privacy, which arose in 2013 following revelations from Edward Snowden that the GCHQ was running a bulk interception operation to tap into and store huge volumes of data, which included people s private communications.
In addition to wrapping up those three lawsuits, the landmark judgment also marks the first ruling on UK mass surveillance since Snowden s revelations.
China’s Fudan University to Set Up Campus in Budapest, Triggering Security Concerns
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Hungary signed an agreement with Fudan University on April 27 to set up a campus in its capital city of Budapest. This will be Fudan’s only overseas campus and another Chinese university to establish a campus in Europe, following Beijing University in 2018 in the UK and Shanghai’s Tongji University in Italy in 2014. However, the joint initiative has raised security concerns among Hungarian lawmakers.
The New Campus Is Based on the BRI Investment Model
According to “official government documents” obtained in April by Hungarian media Direkt36, the Hungarian government plans to work with a major Chinese construction company to construct Fudan University’s new campus in Budapest. The construction is expected to be completed in 2024. Fudan University is based in Shanghai.
“domestic violent extremists” are
“really adaptive and innovative,” not only
“moving to encrypted platforms,” but speaking in opaque language online to avoid detection – thus apparently necessitating intensive monitoring of even innocent-seeming communications.
The new policy, if adopted, would “
likely be beneficial” to both the DHS and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which likewise
“can’t monitor US citizens in this way without first getting a warrant or having the pretext of an ongoing investigation.”
As with so many recent calls for enhanced surveillance powers and crackdowns on encryption, the January 6 Capitol Hill riot was invoked as the inspiration behind the push. CNN alleged that an