UK government given Tuesday deadline over David Miranda data

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

UK government given Tuesday deadline over David Miranda data

Judges ask government to provide detailed evidence about why it
wants right to trawl data seized using terror laws

Robert Booth
The Guardian, Friday 23 August 2013 22.43 BST

The high court has given the government until Tuesday night to provide detailed evidence about why it wants the right to trawl and share data seized using terror laws from the partner of a Guardian journalist.

Lord Justice Beatson and Judge Kenneth Parker said in a judgment outlining their decision to allow the police to continue accessing material taken from David Miranda that the ruling was made because while they could not judge the strength of the government's claims about the national security risks the material would pose if disclosed, they did have "serious assertions by responsible persons".

Miranda's partner, Glenn Greenwald, has exposed mass digital surveillance by US and UK spy agencies based on material leaked by Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor. Miranda was travelling from Berlin back to his home in Rio de Janeiro when he was detained at Heathrow last Sunday.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/government-david-miranda-data

[dipsydoodle]

1. At least for the time being ,

you'll find elsewhere in the Guardian a few days back , our police cannot use anything whatsoever found as evidence in a criminal case against David Miranda i.e they are screwed.

As a reminder to those outside the UK : our police don't bring charges anyway - the Crown Prosecution Service / CPS does that.