EPIC Helps Challenge Surveillance By US And British Intelligence Agencies

The Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC) has just filed a third-party intervention brief before the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) to help challenge the surveillance activities of intelligence organizations of the United States and the United Kingdom.

The case, according to EPIC's brief, "impacts the human rights to privacy, data protection and freedom of expression of people around the world ...," and is of "broad international importance because it involves arrangements to transfer personal data between the United States and European counties." A core purpose of EPIC's intervention is to show the Court that "current trends in U.S. and European surveillance law ... are undermining privacy, data protection, and security."