Mass Surveillance Exposed by Snowden "Not Justified by Fight Against Terrorism"
"The 'secret, massive and indiscriminate' surveillance conducted by
intelligence services and disclosed by the former US intelligence
contractor Edward Snowden cannot be justified by the fight against
terrorism, the most senior human rights official in Europe has warned.
In a direct challenge to the United Kingdom and other states, Nils
Muižnieks, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe,
calls for greater transparency and stronger democratic oversight of the
way security agencies monitor the internet. He also said that so-called
Five Eyes intelligence-sharing treaty between the UK, US, Australia, New
Zealand and Canada should be published.
'Suspicionless mass retention of communications data is fundamentally
contrary to the rule of law … and ineffective,' the Latvian official
argues in a 120-page report, The Rule of Law on the Internet in the Wider Digital World. 'Member states should not resort to it or impose
compulsory retention of data by third parties.'"
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