[T]he ECHR [European Court of Human Rights] has ruled that [...] some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violate human rights law... The complaints before the ECHR focused on three different surveillance regimes: 1) The bulk interception of communications (aka ‘mass surveillance’); 2) Intelligence sharing with foreign governments; and 3) The obtaining of communications data from communications service providers... [T]he action [was] brought by a coalition of civil and human rights campaigners... [T]he ECHR found, by a majority of five votes to two, that the UK’s bulk interception regime violates Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (a right to respect for private and family life/communications) — on the grounds that “there was insufficient oversight [...] and the safeguards governing the selection of ‘related communications data’ for examination were inadequate”. The judges did not find bulk collection itself to be in violation of the convention... In an even more pronounced majority vote, the Chamber found by six votes to one that the UK government’s regime for obtaining data from communications service providers violated Article 8 as it was “not in accordance with the law”.