Aug 5, 2022
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Indias government withdrew a data protection and privacy bill that was first proposed in 2019 and alarmed big technology firms such as Googl
National laws regulating State involvement in communications surveillance are mostly inadequate or simply do not exist. To demonstrate their commitment to protect privacy and to ensure people can communicate freely, States can start by immediately revising their own laws and the role of the judiciary, in order to correct serious gaps that exist in most national legal frameworks.
UN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue on the recent recognition by the UN of a Global Right to Privacy. The issues, though, are larger than privacy and will require us to first understand those laws.
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The Surveillance State in the US and Europe
"American law has generally focused on access restraints for government to obtain privately held information, ignored the collection and storage of data, and granted special privileges to national security actors. By contrast, Europe emphasizes rules related to the collection and retention of data and focuses less on due process obstacles for government access, while also giving government easier access for national security."
Interesting Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2349269