It's time for our governments to stop eavesdropping and start listening
January 28, 2015 - by Privacy International.
So if that’s what they are interested in, what numbers aren’t they paying attention to?
- 594,659 - the number of signatories to Stop Watching Us, a US campaign against mass surveillance
- 53 - the amount of US researchers in cryptography and information security who called on the US government to “ resist the deployment of mass surveillance programs in advance of sound technical and social controls”
- 417 - the number of human rights organisations who support the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
- 10 - the world’s major internet companies that demanded a reform to government surveillance
- 10,276- the number of signatories to Don’t Spy On Us, a campaign against UK surveillance overreach
- 300 - the amount of academics who have spoken out against mass surveillance