13 Principles Week of Action: Five Eyes’ Quest For Security Has Given Us Widespread Insecurity

September 18, 2014 - by Aaron Gluck Thaler.

You do not have to choose between privacy and security. With robust communications systems, we can have both. Yet intelligence agencies such as GCHQ and the NSA have severely injured both, interfering with our privacy rights while simultaneously jeopardizing our security. By infiltrating our communications technologies, governments, who have an obligation to respect and strengthen the integrity of these technologies, have instead eroded the possibility of secure systems. Their activities violate the key principle of ‘Integrity of Communications and Systems of the ‘International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance.