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The UK government is under pressure to adopt judicial sign-off for interception warrant requests following the publishing of a second independent report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). At the moment, ministers in the UK are allowed to give the go ahead on the surveillance warrants without judicial input. The report states that the current system of granting warrants is lacking in “legal clarity” and says the “ISR Panel believe the system requires a radical overhaul which must include an enhanced role for the judiciary.” Last month, the Anderson surveillance review came to the same conclusion. Surveillance practices in the…

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