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Daily Dashboard | UN Report: State Surveillance Violates Rights to Privacy, Expression Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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The United Nations (UN) Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights drew attention today to its recent report indicating state communications surveillance undermines the human rights to privacy and freedom of expression. “Concerns about national security and criminal activity may justify the exceptional use of communications surveillance,” said UN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue. “Nevertheless, national laws regulating what constitutes the necessary, legitimate and proportional state involvement in communications surveillance are often inadequate or simply do not exist…Who are the authorities mandated to promote the surveillance of individuals? What is the final destiny of the massive amounts of the stored information on our communications? These questions urgently need to be studied in all countries to ensure a better protection of the rights to privacy and the right to freedom of expression.”
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