Spot the terrorist? Data protection and the seizure of personal data on laptops at airports.
21 August 2013
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As you are probably aware, Mr. Miranda is the partner of the Guardian journalist who has been using the documentation provided by whistleblower Mr Snowdon to publicise mass surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ. Last Sunday, under the Terrorism Act 2000, he was detained at Heathrow for nine hours whilst in transit from Germany to Brazil; his equipment was also seized (laptop, phone etc). I thought I would do a detailed blog on the interplay between data protection and terrorism law as it
