UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
<i>&quot;Yet again a UK court has ruled the government’s extreme mass surveillance regime unlawful. This judgement tells ministers in crystal clear terms that they are breaching the public’s human rights.&quot;</i><p>So the question then remains...where are the handcuffs?!  I ask this question constantly when it comes to government wrongdoing and there is almost never anyone charged with anything.  If the government has been acting in a manner that has been found in a court of law to violate human rights, then multiple people should be going to jail.<p>Before you drop the &quot;well now we know for sure - we shouldn&#x27;t be punitive and punish people who thought they were doing their job properly&quot; crap, think about this.  Whenever the government applies a law in a new and untested way against a civilian the case is watched very closely and if that civilian is found guilty they never get the benefit of the &quot;well it&#x27;s been settled and now we know&quot; argument and get let off lightly.  So I argue the same should apply here.  The government has grossly violated the  rights of citizens on a mass scale and everyone at the top of the food chain involved in these programs should be rotting in a jail cell.