Campaigners launch legal challenge to 'snoopers' charter'

A human rights group is launching a crowd-funded legal challenge to the UK government's so-called "snoopers' charter". Campaign group Liberty says the powers, which are used by intelligence agencies to collect large volumes of data from electronic devices, amount to an "assault on our freedom". The Investigatory Powers Act gained royal assent in November. The government has said it will defend the act.
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