Mass surveillance on Social Media: Will 2018 be a turning point in the European Court of Human Rights’ case law?
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June 25, 2019
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“It is clear that bulk interception is a valuable means to achieve the legitimate aims pursued, particularly given the current threat level from both global terrorism and serious crime” said the European Court of Human Right in the highly expected decision Big Brother Watch v. United Kingdom in September 2018. This ruling, added to the Centrüm for Rattsiva v. Sweden case in June 2018, shows that the European Court of Human Rights accepted that States can adopt mass surveillance policies in the name of the fight against terrorism. This presentation will present how the European Court of Human Rights slightly overturned its jurisprudence in mass surveillance and what will be the consequences for mass surveillance on Social Media
