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Legal Struggles Over Interception Rules in the United States
SourceLegal wiretapping: more questions than answers. (Chuzadas Legales: Más preguntas que respuestas)
January 26, 2013 - by Vivian Newman
SourceMarco Civil: A Brazilian reaction to surveillance on the internet
September 15, 2014 - by Veridiana Alimonti.
SourceBill No. 2126/2011 in Brazil, known as the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (in Portuguese: Marco Civil da Internet), was finally passed by the Brazilian Senate on 22 April 2014, and sanctioned the following day by President Dilma Rousseff at the opening ceremony of NETmundial. With this, the bill became Federal Law No. 12965/2014, which is the result of widespread mobilisation by civil society searching for a guarantee on internet rights – a mobilisation which resulted in an innovative participatory movement in the Brazilian lawmaking process. The three key pillars of the Marco Civil – net neutrality, intermediary liability aligned with freedom of expression, and data protection and privacy – encouraged people to link themselves to the mobilisation campaign and great resistance in the National Congress of Brazil. The purpose of this report is to highlight the relevant points in the process of preparation and approval of the law, as well as to discuss the rules related to the three pillars, while emphasising data protection and privacy.
Megaphone for social movements: campaigning in the surveillance state
November 29, 2013 - by The Guardian (Geraud de Ville).
SourceThe internet has given activists the means to communicate, mobilise supporters and take action – but while they are watching the government, the state’s watching them.
More than a hundred global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
July 31, 2013 by SHARE Conference.
SourceThe Principles articulate what international human rights law – which binds every country across the globe – require of governments in the digital age. They speak to a growing global consensus that modern surveillance has gone too far and needs to be restrained. They also give benchmarks that people around the world can use to evaluate and push for changes in their own legal systems.
Más de 100 asociaciones civiles formulan principios en contra de la vigilancia de las comunicaciones
August 13, 2013 - by La Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (Spanish).
SourceACIJ, junto a 118 organizaciones de la sociedad civil a nivel mundial, firmaron los Principios Internacionales sobre la Aplicación de los Derechos Humanos a la Vigilancia de las Comunicaciones. El objetivo de estos principios es explicar cómo los estándares de derechos humanos actuales y del derecho internacional público deben aplicarse a las nuevas situaciones de vigilancia de las comunicaciones.
Necessary and proportionate: Civil society agrees on principles on surveillance and human rights
July 31, 2013 - by Shawna Finnegan, Association for Progressive Communications.
SourceThese principles are being released at a crucial moment, as the Snowden revelations of US-led surveillance demonstrate a growing and systematic disregard for human rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by a number of State and non-State actors. The right to privacy is a fundamental human right and is essential to other human rights such as free expression, association and peaceful assembly. Widespread digital surveillance conducted outside of legal frameworks seriously threatens the protection and promotion of these rights.
Not-so-legitimate aims and other sorry tales of Canadian mass surveillance
September 13, 2014 - by Cynthia Khoo.
SourceIn joining the global movement against mass surveillance, Canadians face many challenges in terms of getting their own house in order. Many Canada’s surveillance policies and practices clearly violate the international human rights law, including the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance. This article outlines this fact, especially with regard to the principles of “legitimate aim,” “competent judicial authority,” and “proportionality.”
NSA: our analogue spying laws must catch up with the digital era
November 10, 2013 - by The Guardian (Kenneth Roth).
SourceNews that US intelligence services tapped the phones of allied leaders has generated understandable outrage in Europe. But far more significant is the American government’s practice of monitoring the communications of millions of ordinary people, who have no legal redress in the United States because they are foreigners.
One Small Step for Privacy, One Giant Leap Against Surveillance
December 18, 2013 - by Katitza Rodríguez and Jillian York.
SourceThe UN Resolution opens the opportunity for further work on the issue by the United Nations on the protection of privacy across borders. Fortunately, EFF 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.”