News and Research articles on Snowden revelations

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.

By retracing the stages of development of a 'peer-to-peer cloud' storage service, Francesca Musiani argues that decentralised network architectures are internet governance 'in practice'.