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Police ordered to give reasons in closed court for seizing phone of UK Hamas lawyer | Computer Weekly A London court orders police to disclose reasons for seizing the phone of a UK lawyer that represented Hamas but refused an injunction to prevent police reviewing the phone until after judicial review

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PSNI appoints legal counsel to report on police conduct after McCullough surveillance review | Computer Weekly The PSNI has commissioned a senior lawyer to review whether there was any misconduct by police officers following an independent review that found police unlawfully monitored journalists’ phone data, ...

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Digital ID risks turning UK into ‘Checkpoint Britain’   | Computer Weekly Proposals for mandatory digital ID have gained traction with alarming speed, with Keir Starmer now confirming he is considering implementing a digital ID scheme as a supposed means of combating illega...

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"A mandatory digital ID scheme would completely reverse the nature of our relationship with the state, turning Britain into a “papers, please” society and inserting the state into many everyday interactions."
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PSNI chief sorry over failure to delete data unlawfully seized from journalists | Computer Weekly

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French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack | Computer Weekly The French supreme court has turned to the European Court of Justice to decide whether EU citizens have the right to challenge the legality of evidence obtained by French law enforcement by hacking th...

French court ruling may lead to legal challenges over state Sky ECC and EncroChat phone hack

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Hamas lawyer challenges police after they seized legal files from phone in Schedule 7 stop | Computer Weekly A lawyer representing Hamas in a legal case in the UK is challenging the legality of the seizure of his mobile phone after he was stopped and questioned by police. Welsh police stopped Fahad Ansari’s ...

Lawyer who represented Hamas seeks judicial review and injunction after police seized his work phone containing 98% legally priviliged material
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MI5 unlawfully monitored the phone of BBC journalist Vincent Kearney | Computer Weekly The Security Service MI5 has admitted unlawfully spying on the phone of former BBC investigative journalist Vincent Kearney. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard today that the security service has...

Breaking - MI5 unlawfully monitored the phone of BBC journalist Vincent Kearney
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Chat Control: EU to decide on requirement for tech firms to scan encrypted messages | Computer Weekly Law enforcement and police experts are meeting on Friday to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan encrypted messages for possible child abuse images...

EU to decide on mandatory scanning of encrypted messages

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Court to decide whether it is lawful for enterprises to sell unwanted software licences | Computer Weekly Microsoft has been accused of abusing its market position by stifling the sale of second-hand copies of its Windows operating system and Office software, in a long-running battle over the lawfulness o...

A landmark case is unfolding at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal that could reshape the software industry. ValueLicensing is suing Microsoft for £270m, claiming it unlawfully restricted businesses from reselling unused software licenses. #TechLaw #Competition #Microsoft
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Northern Ireland police kept inspectors in dark over surveillance of journalists | Computer Weekly Northern Ireland police failed to disclose two covert surveillance operations against journalists to the UK’s independent surveillance watchdog in breach of their statutory obligations. The Police Ser...

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European court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework data-sharing agreement | Computer Weekly EU General Court upholds EU-US Data Privacy Framework, bringing certainty to businesses that exchange data with the US – for now. An appeal may be in the offing.

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Home Office ‘back door’ seeks world-wide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm | Computer Weekly The Home Office sought access to data and messages stored by Apple users on its cloud storage in the UK and overseas by demanding a ‘back door’ to Apple’s iCloud service, a court document has revealed...

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US says UK has agreed to drop encryption ‘back door’ demands against Apple | Computer Weekly US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘back door’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advance encryption services to UK users.

US and UK end diplomatic row over UK encryption ‘back door’ order against Apple, but it remains unclear whether Apple will restore advance encryption services to UK user
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Watching the watchers: Is the Technical Advisory Panel a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ? | Computer Weekly Dame Muffy Calder is chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a small group of experts that advises the Investigatory Powers Commissioner on surveillance technology. Do they have what it takes to ...

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Can this small group of experts act as an effective counterbalance to organisations such as GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, which had a combined budget of £4.5bn in 2004-2005?

Calder, a distinguished computer scientist whose research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), computational modelling and automated reasoning, is the chair of the Technical Advisory Panel (TAP), a group of six experts charged with advising Britain’s surveillance oversight body.

For Dame Muffy Calder and the small group of academics, former spies and technical experts that advise Britain’s oversight body for intelligence agencies and police on developments in technology, their work is all about “trust”.

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Are the small group of academics and technical experts that advise the UK's surveillance oversight organisation a match for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ?

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WhatsApp is refused right to intervene in Apple legal action on encryption ‘backdoors’ | Computer Weekly Investigatory Powers Tribunal to hear arguments in public over lawfulness of secret UK order requiring Apple to give UK law enforcement access to users’ encrypted data stored on the Apple iCloud.

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Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters | Computer Weekly The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that police spied on the phone of investigative journalist Chris Moore amid further claims of a sustained monitoring operation against BBC rep...

Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters

👉Surveillance against BBC journalists allegedly took place during multiple PSNI operations in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2022

UK may be seeking to pull back from Apple encryption row with US | Computer Weekly The government may be seeking to pull back from a diplomatic row with the US over UK demands to require Apple to give the UK access to secure data stored by Apple users. UK government officials have t...

ICYI - UK government officials say that attempts by the Home Office to require Apple to introduce ‘back doors’ to its secure encrypted storage service will cross US red lines

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The Foundation for Information Policy Research is today publishing a policy explainer of the ongoing case between Apple and the Home Office, in which we outline the issues and our views on them as experts in law, cryptography, policy, security, and criminology. You can find it here: www.fipr.org

European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment | Computer Weekly The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor.

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Investigatory Powers Tribunal has no power to award costs against PSNI over evidence failures | Computer Weekly Investigatory Powers Tribunal judges have called for the Home Secretary to step in after finding they have no powers to award costs against government bodies that fail to disclose evidence.

Surveillance court has no power to award costs against police and intelligence services
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Thanks Bill for publishing me again - this one a short primer on the history and practice of the IPT

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal explained | Computer Weekly The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is an unusual semi-secret judicial body, based London but capable of sitting in Scotland or Northern Ireland too. It carries out many of its functions secretly,...

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is a semi-secret judicial body that has made significant legal rulings on privacy, surveillance and the use of investigatory powers. What does it do and why is it important? Excllent analysis from @bernardkeenan.bsky.social
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Great news. The IPT will hear the substantive arguments about the Apple anti-encryption order in public hearings. Now the government can decide what they prefer: fight the appeal and put a chilling effect on encryption in the UK, or back down, withdraw the TCN, and let this blow over...

The big US academic conferences will be much smaller in future.

1. Apple wins, with the Tribunal publicly finding that technical measures compromising encryption systems are disproportionate in principle and therefore unlawful. The optimal outcome for privacy and the integrity of encryption systems in the UK and a step toward a 'human right to encryption'.