THREAD: In a landmark Judgment today, the European Court of Human Rights declared that the UK Surveillance-State's data collection regime violated citizens' privacy and human rights.

Details summarised in the Court's (non-binding) press release in the picture below. The full Judgement of the Court is available to read here: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#_Toc524359…
In printed form it is 204 pages long and looks like this: