Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR

<p>On 25th May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR ruled in the case Big Brother Watch v. UK that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violated Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Big Brother Watch is the first decision on mass surveillance since the Snowden revelations and sets a standard...

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Main Author: Monika Zalnieriute
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Language:deu
Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
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Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/big-b-v-uk/
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description <p>On 25th May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR ruled in the case Big Brother Watch v. UK that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violated Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Big Brother Watch is the first decision on mass surveillance since the Snowden revelations and sets a standard, grounded in “procedural fetishism”, which endorses the legality of bulk surveillance operations. </p>
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spelling doaj.art-87570e2713e14b0f91de0846a6cf83672022-12-22T01:54:19ZdeuMax Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbHVerfassungsblog2366-70442366-7044Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHRMonika Zalnieriute<p>On 25th May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR ruled in the case Big Brother Watch v. UK that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violated Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Big Brother Watch is the first decision on mass surveillance since the Snowden revelations and sets a standard, grounded in “procedural fetishism”, which endorses the legality of bulk surveillance operations. </p> https://verfassungsblog.de/big-b-v-uk/Big Brother Watch v UK, Proceduralism, surveillance
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Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
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Big Brother Watch v UK, Proceduralism, surveillance
title Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
title_full Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
title_fullStr Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
title_full_unstemmed Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
title_short Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR
title_sort procedural fetishism and mass surveillance under the echr
topic Big Brother Watch v UK, Proceduralism, surveillance
url https://verfassungsblog.de/big-b-v-uk/
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