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Reining in Government Hacking in the UK
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Reining in Government Hacking in the UK

A legal history of GCHQ computer hacking

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Mahdi Assan
Feb 23, 2021
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On 8 January 2021, the High Court delivered its judgment on Privacy International v IPT & Others (2021), a case concerning computer hacking operations carried out by GCHQ. This ruling specifically focused on the scope of property interference warrants under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (ISA 1994). GCHQ applies for these warrants as pa…

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