{"id":715747,"date":"2022-06-24T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/24\/uk-security-services-must-seek-approval-access-telecoms-data-judges-rule"},"modified":"2022-06-24T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T15:02:38","slug":"uk-security-services-must-seek-approval-to-access-telecoms-data-judges-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/24\/uk-security-services-must-seek-approval-to-access-telecoms-data-judges-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"UK security services must seek approval to access telecoms data, judges rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty hails decision that prior independent authorisation is needed for people\u2019s communications data<\/p><p>The security and intelligence services must acquire \u201cprior independent authorisation\u201d to obtain people\u2019s communications data from telecom providers, a civil rights campaign group has said, after it won a high court challenge.<\/p><p>Liberty hailed a \u201clandmark victory\u201d and said two judges ruled it was unlawful for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to obtain individuals\u2019 communications data from telecom providers without having prior independent authorisation during criminal investigations.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/24\/uk-security-services-must-seek-approval-access-telecoms-data-judges-rule\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jun\/24\/uk-security-services-must-seek-approval-access-telecoms-data-judges-rule\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty hails decision that prior independent authorisation is needed for people\u2019s communications dataThe security and intelligence services must acquire \u201cprior independent authorisation\u201d to obtain people\u2019s communications data from telecom providers, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13561,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5686,6,640,1147,369,50385,1314,3178],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715748,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715747\/revisions\/715748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}