http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210602-123858-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/big-b-v-uk/ Procedural Fetishism and Mass Surveillance under the ECHR Zalnieriute, Monika eng 2021-06-02 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Big Brother Watch v UK Proceduralism surveillance Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 25th May 2021, the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR ruled in the case Big Brother Watch v. UK that some aspects of the UK’s surveillance regime violated Articles 8 and 10 of the ECHR. Big Brother Watch is the first decision on mass surveillance since the Snowden revelations and sets a standard, grounded in “procedural fetishism”, which endorses the legality of bulk surveillance operations.