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CoE: Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden ‘not justified by fight against terrorism’

08 December 2014

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"Muižnieks [the Commissoiner] wrote: “In connection with the debate on the practices of intelligence and security services prompted by Edward Snowden’s revelations, it is becoming increasingly clear that secret, massive and indiscriminate surveillance programmes are not in conformity with European human rights law and cannot be justified by the fight against terrorism or other important threats to national security. Such interferences can only be accepted if they are strictly necessary and proportionate to a legitimate aim.”

See the article: Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden ‘not justified by fight against terrorism’ - Report by Nils Muižnieks, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, says ‘secret, massive and indiscriminate’ intelligence work is contrary to rule of law (Guardian, link)

And see: CoE: Commissioner for Human Rights: Report: The Rule of Law on the Internet in the Wider Digital World.(124 pages, pdf), Summary (pdf) and: Infographic (pdf)

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