[governance] Human Rights Council: New LaRue report on government surveillance online

Wed Jun 5 08:56:32 EDT 2013

Thanks Nick, for scooping this, great to know

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Nick Ashton-Hart <nashton at ccianet.org>wrote:

> Dear Governance list peeps,
>
> For those of you who didn't see it, the HRC received a new report from
> special rapporteur LaRue this week:
>
> Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
> right to freedom of opinion and expression<http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session23/A.HRC.23.40_EN.pdf>
>
> "... analyses the implications of States’ surveillance of communications
> on the exercise of the human rights to privacy and to freedom of opinion
> and expression. While considering the impact of significant technological
> advances in communications, the report underlines the urgent need to
> further study new modalities of surveillance and to revise national laws regulating
> these practices in line with human rights standards."
>
>
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