UK High Court perma-bans efforts to extradite Lauri Love for US hacking trial
Sets precedent for blocking extradition of hackers to US on humanitarian grounds.
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The US had already essentially dropped efforts to extradite Love, but the ruling by the High Court now sets legal precedent that may bar future extraditions of British citizens on hacking charges. In a statement e-mailed to Ars, Naomi Colvin—acting director of the Courage Foundation, an organization that has assisted Love in his extradition appeal—said that as a result of the ruling, "there is now very little prospect of any British hacker ever finding themselves in the same position as Lauri Love or Gary McKinnon. Fifteen years of terrible public policy in which British hackers were left open to the vindictive instincts of US prosecutors have now been brought to an end."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/uk-high-court-perma-bans-efforts-to-extradite-lauri-love-for-us-hacking-trial/
