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Posted on Jan 12, 2021 by Caleb Chen The United Kingdom (UK) High Court has ruled that the country’s security and intelligence agencies can no longer use “general warrants” as legal writ for property interference, aka hacking. The move has been declared a victory for the rule of law by privacy and civil liberties experts around the world. For years, law enforcement in the UK has been using general warrants under an interpretation of the law provided by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) to authorize acts of property interference on multiple targets – as many as hundreds of th...

The Australian coat of arms over parliament house, Canberra (John/Flickr) Published 11 Jan 2021 06:00   0 Comments   The Richardson review, released last month, amounts to the most significant review of Australia’s intelligence legislative framework since the Hope Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security in the 1970s. Back then, as David Irvine has noted, former judge Robert Hope laid out operating principles to ensure the intelligence community was properly managed and accountable. Dennis Richardson, a...

Government use of 'general warrants' to authorise computer and phone hacking is unlawful A court has ruled that the security and intelligence services can no longer rely on ‘general warrants’ to authorise the hacking of large numbers of computers and phones belonging to UK citizens Share this item with your network: By Published: 08 Jan 2021 23:03 The security and intelligence services cannot use “general warrants” to indiscriminately hack into large numbers of mobile phones and computers in the UK, judges have decided. The High Court ruled on 8 January that it was unlawful for G...

PRIVACY campaigners have won a five-year legal battle against the secret service’s use of “general warrants” to search the computers and phones of millions of people.  The High Court ruled today that section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 does not permit the issuing of general warrants with property interference and some forms of computer hacking.  The ruling quashed a previous decision by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.  The decision hinged on Common law dating back to the 18th century to demonstrate the insistence that government cannot search private premises without ...

© REUTERS/Toby Melville FILE PHOTO: The MI6 building in London August 25, 2010While debate rages over controversial spying legislation in the UK, other disclosures indicate British spooks have long been secretly free to commit crimes with impunity anyway. There has rightly been intense controversy over the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill in recent months. The legislation would enshrine in law the ability of undercover operatives - both employees of British state agencies and their informants - to not only commit extremely serious crimes, up to and including rape, torture and mu...