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Re:Privacy International files legal challenge against UK go... by weland on Monday July 08, 2013 @09:11AM (#6006550)
> or have to justify reasons for its decisions.

Whoa. What kind of a tribunal is that?

This is dystopian beyond words. Even in the fifties, the most outrageous, crime-filed years of communism, the People's Tribunals still justified their decisions. It was a facade -- everyone knew it was bollocks -- but all decisions were motivated.

I get private hearings (e.g. for security reasons, both the state's and the personal security of those who participate in them); they are used in many countries. But not having to publish a motivation for a decision, that's... beyond words.

Re:Privacy International files legal challenge against UK go... by Joeboy on Monday July 08, 2013 @12:09PM (#6007465)
> Whoa. What kind of a tribunal is that?

"in the period 2000 to 2009, five out of at least 956 complaints made have been upheld", says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Tribunal#...

A bunch of women who were conned into having relationships with, and in some cases having the children of, undercover police officers are currently fighting a case behind closed doors in the IPT, which presumably will not find in their favour. I imagine the IPT's purpose is to present an additional obstacle before they can go to the European Court of Human Rights. It's fucked up.

Re:Privacy International files legal challenge against UK go... by mtgx on Monday July 08, 2013 @01:40PM (#6007979)
Yeah, I don't get it. So they are going to argue against secret laws, at at ... secret tribunal?

That seems very hopeless to me.