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Re:EU’s high court finds UK, FR and BE surveillance regimes ... by Cantbekhan on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:03AM (#24697729)
Exactly as I commented too. This ruling could basically make mass surveillance legal in the whole of EU and UK as long as the states set some unspecified limits themselves on how long they keep the data.
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Re:EU’s high court finds UK, FR and BE surveillance regimes ... by DanBC on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:12AM (#24697813)
> This ruling could basically make mass surveillance legal

What makes you think it's not already legal?

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Re:EU’s high court finds UK, FR and BE surveillance regimes ... by Cantbekhan on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:15AM (#24698541)
Well it wasn't completely clear before this ruling (see this analysis from a Belgian Law Faculty which lists the previous cases (https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/mass-surveillance-and...).

And some member states never really ruled on the matter clearly.

Now it's pretty clear and I have to agree and re-reading this ruling entirely that this is in fact making mass surveillance legal under an apparent cover of limiting it. Making your initial ending remark completely true.

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