Citations
Global coalition stands against unchecked surveillance
August 1, 2013 - by IFEX.
SourceAround 200 NGOs have signed 13 basic principles that spell out how existing human rights law applies to surveillance.
Human rights and communications surveillance
August 18, 2013 - by Jon Lawrence, Electronic Frontiers Australia Electronic Frontiers.
SourceAustralia this week signed onto the International Principles of the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, a set of international due process principles designed to protect privacy in the face of government surveillance. The 13 point statement of principles is intended to explain how existing human rights standards, international law and jurisprudence should apply to the new capabilities and risks of digital surveillance.
Human Rights and Privacy Groups Launch Global Action to Oppose Mass Surveillance
November 26, 2013 -by EFF.
SourcePetition Urges Support for 13 International “Necessary and Proportionate” Principles. An international coalition of human rights and privacy organizations today launched an action center to oppose mass surveillance on the global stage: necessaryandproportionate.org/takeaction. The new petition site went live just as the United Nations voted on a resolution to recognize the need for the international community to come to terms with new digital surveillance techniques.
Human Rights Treaties and Foreign Surveillance: Privacy in the Digital Age
March 31, 2014
These provisions are broad yet vague.[6] They are also coupled with the preliminary threshold question of whether they would apply in the first place to extraterritorial surveillance. But while there are many uncertainties regarding the application of human rights treaties to intelligence gathering, they are not insurmountable. Indeed, it is inevitable that human rights language and fora will be used in challenging the legality of electronic surveillance programs, as is already being done by privacy activists.7 Special rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council have started examining the impact of counterterrorism measures on the right to privacy.[8]
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- See International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance,10 July 2013, at https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text (a set of 13 principles drawn from human rights law that would apply to both domestic and extraterritorial surveillance, drafted by numerous civil society organizations in comprehensive process led by Privacy International, Access, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation).
Increasing Anti-Surveillance Momentum and the Necessary and Proportionate Principles
December 16, 2013 by Katitza Rodríguez, Cindy Cohn, and Parker Higgins.
SourceEFF and several other NGOs and legal scholars around the world have already developed a set of robust principles, called the 13 International Principles for the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance—or more commonly, the Necessary and Proportionate Principles. These can be used by people around the world to push for stronger local legal protections, as well as by the United Nations and other international bodies. The Principles have so far been endorsed by over 329 organizations, 43 experts and elected officials, and thousands of individuals from around the world. It’s also open for signature by companies. The Principles look beyond the current set of revelations to take a broad look at how modern communications surveillance technologies can be addressed consistent with human rights and the rule of law.
Internet Surveillance in Korea 2014
September 15, 2014 - by K.S. Park.
SourceSeveral of the state practices in Korea clearly violate 13 Principles. This articles highlights specific examples of massive indiscriminate surveillance in Korea and suggests a way forward.”
Internet the panopticon: Exhibition and surveillance
September 15, 2014 - by Andrew Garton. This report discusses the privacy and online security concerns of 13 Australians, two Malaysians and an expat living in the United States (US), all of whom have journeyed the internet in unique ways, some since its inception and others in more recent times.
SourceIntroducing the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
July 31, 2013 - by Carly Nyst, Privacy International.
SourceFor some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques. Nothing could demonstrate the urgency of this situation more than the recent revelations confirming the mass surveillance of innocent individuals around the world.
It's time for our governments to stop eavesdropping and start listening
January 28, 2015 - by Privacy International.
SourceSo 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
It’s time for companies to become champions of rights and build a new accord with the public
August 6, 2013 - by Simon Davies.
SourceRights organisations are way ahead of companies on this issue. Last month more than 150 groups signed onto an declaration on international principles for communications surveillance. That document goes part of the way to a possible solution.