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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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