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The Senate measure contains no real solution for indiscriminate data sharing.
By themselves, indiscriminate data dumps don't always advance the public right to know.
We are frequently told that this indiscriminate data collection has produced valuable results, but those results are "secret," so you'll just have to trust the government.
So, once again, that's a general and indiscriminate data retention requirement.
Although last year the UK government lost a legal challenge to prior domestic surveillance legislation under EU law — with Europe's top court reiterating that state's cannot legislate for "general and indiscriminate data retention".
Given the concerns this brings for the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, the WP29 looks to the forthcoming rulings of the CJEU in cases regarding massive and indiscriminate data collection".
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The president's professed desire to change the country's post-9/11 mindset seems a little out-of-keeping with his defense of the N.S.A.'s indiscriminate data-mining program.
Critics have also suggested the government is effectively trying to redraw the definition of serious crime to still be able to afford state agencies' indiscriminate bulk data access.
During the course of this case, the ECJ has ruled on another challenge — brought against emergency surveillance legislation rushed through the UK parliament in 2014 (called DRIPA) — stating in December that "general and indiscriminate" state data retention regimes contravene EU law.
Last November, under mounting pressure over its broadly drafted surveillance regime — including a landmark judgment by Europe's top court, at the end of 2016, which stated that "general and indiscriminate" state data retention regimes contravene EU law — a Home Office consultation paper revealed plans to amend the legislation to try to squeeze its powers into a more lawful shape.
Facebook is disputing the court's earlier findings, including of "mass indiscriminate processing" of data by U.S. government agencies — under the PRISM and Upstream data harvesting programs (details of which were made public in documents released in 2013, by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden).
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