Privacy International and five internet and communications providers have filed a new challenge to the U.K. government’s use of bulk hacking abroad. They aim to “bring the government’s hacking under the rule of law,” they said in a case lodged Friday with the European Court of Human Rights. The application challenges the British government’s February refusal to rule on whether hacking efforts outside the UK by the GCHQ British intelligence service comply with the EU Convention on Human Rights. That decision was part of a case brought by Privacy International in 2014.”]

