News and Research articles on EU member states

Volume 3, Issue 1
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Can human rights law bend mass surveillance?

Rikke Frank Joergensen, The Danish Institute for Human Rights
PUBLISHED ON: 27 Feb 2014 DOI: 10.14763/2014.1.249

Drawing on the example of the US surveillance operation PRISM and its impact on European citizens’ right to privacy, the author discusses what an authoritative human rights-based response could look like.

KEYWORDS: Privacy, Human rights, Data protection, Surveillance, PRISM, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)