{"id":23296,"date":"2017-03-20T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23296"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:31:34","slug":"un-slams-mass-surveillance-trying-to-appear-tough-on-security-by-legitimising-largely-useless-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23296","title":{"rendered":"UN Slams Mass Surveillance: \u201cTrying To Appear Tough On Security By Legitimising Largely Useless … Measures”"},"content":{"rendered":"

UN Slams Mass Surveillance: \u201cTrying To Appear Tough On Security By Legitimising Largely Useless … Measures”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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A White House panel has previously slammed the NSA, and said that\u00a0mass spying is unnecessary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, the United Nations\u2019 Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy notes in a\u00a0new report<\/a>\u00a0(with our comments)<\/p>\n

Deeply concerning \u2026 the status of the right to privacy in the surveillance area of activity\u00a0has not improved<\/strong>\u00a0since the last [UN surveillance] report. [Indeed, it\u2019s\u00a0getting worse<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 and will\u00a0only expand<\/a>\u00a0unless we fight for privacy.]<\/p>\n

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Increasingly, personal data ends up in the same \u201cbucket\u201d of data which can be used and re-used for all kinds of known and unknown purposes. [Numerous high-level NSA whistleblowers say that NSA spying is about\u00a0crushing dissent<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0blackmailing opponents<\/a>\u00a0\u2026\u00a0not<\/a>stopping<\/a>terrorism<\/a>.] This poses critical questions in areas such as requirements for gathering data, storing data, analysing data and ultimately erasing data. As a concrete example a recent study carried out by the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology in the United States has found that \u201cone in two American adults is in a law enforcement face recognition network.\u201d As the authors of the study put it: \u201cWe know very little about these systems. We don\u2019t know how they impact privacy and civil liberties. [We\u00a0have<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0pretty good idea<\/a>.] We don\u2019t know how they address accuracy problems.<\/p>\n

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While often \u201ctraditional\u201d methods, such as the interception of phone calls and communications in general, are subject to judicial authorisation before the measure can be employed, other techniques such as the collection and analysis of metadata referring to protocols of internet browsing history or data originating from the use of smartphones (location, phone calls, usage of applications, etc.) are subject to much weaker safeguards. This is not justified since the latter categories of data are at least as revealing of a person\u2019s individual activity as the actual content of a conversation.\u00a0 [Correct<\/a>.] Hence, appropriate safeguards must also be in place for these measures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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UN Slams Mass Surveillance: \u201cTrying To Appear Tough On Security By Legitimising Largely Useless … Measures” A White House panel has previously slammed the NSA, and said that\u00a0mass spying is unnecessary. Now, the United Nations\u2019 Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy notes in a\u00a0new report\u00a0(with our comments) Deeply concerning \u2026 the status of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9868,551,577,15020,765,822,826,5510,877],"class_list":["post-23296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-mass-spying","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-right-to-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-washingtons-blog","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23297,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions\/23297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}