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Hacktivists 1.0 were Anonymous mask wearing outsiders. Subsequent generations are made up of insiders who use privacy enhancing technologies to hide their identities, to keep power under control or to disengage.

KEYWORDS: Hacktivism, Privacy enhancing technologies, Anonymous, Wikileaks

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)

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