On September 13, 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in the case of Big Brother Watch et al. v. UK passed his sentence. The decision concerns three lawsuits filed by 14 NGOs against surveillance measures in the United Kingdom in the wake of the Snowden affair. The ECtHR comes to the conclusion that the surveillance at that time partially violated the ECHR. On the ruling, cf. e.g. the reporting of the NZZ or of the Guardian.