{"id":2538,"date":"2014-12-06T15:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2014-12-06T15:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T20:32:37","slug":"british-court-rules-in-favor-of-electronic-surveillance-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/06\/world\/europe\/british-court-says-governments-electronic-surveillance-is-legal.html?hpw&amp;rref=technology&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=0\">British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"231\" data-total-count=\"231\">LONDON \u2014 The court that oversees\u00a0<a class=\"meta-loc\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More news and information about United Kingdom.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/unitedkingdom\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Britain<\/a>\u2019s intelligence agencies ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people\u2019s cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"346\" data-total-count=\"577\">The ruling, on a complaint brought by privacy advocates and rights groups like Amnesty International, is one of the first by a high-level court in any case linked to revelations by Mr. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor. But it is unlikely to end the debate over whether intelligence agencies should have access to online communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"346\" data-total-count=\"577\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Court Rules in Favor of Electronic Surveillance &#8211; NYTimes.com. LONDON \u2014 The court that oversees\u00a0Britain\u2019s intelligence agencies ruled Friday that electronic mass surveillance of people\u2019s cellphone and online communications, like the Prism program revealed by Edward J. Snowden, is legal. The ruling, on a complaint brought by privacy advocates and rights groups like Amnesty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1693,249,483,577,1694,765],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-british-court","tag-edward-snowden","tag-liberty-2","tag-nsa","tag-prism","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}