Ten privacy watchdog organizations from Canada, Egypt, Ireland and the U.S., including Amnesty International, have sued the U.S., New Zealand, Australia, the U.K. and Canada for bulk surveillance practices that they contend violates the European Convention on Human Rights, The Hill reports. The surveillance “violates the Convention’s right to privacy because the U.K.-based wing of the program does not implement adequate safeguards,” the report states. “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself,” the groups said in their brief.
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