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SNOWDEN: UK-EU-USA: MASS SURVEILLANCE: Report from PI and Amnesty International

05 June 2015

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"This briefing, published on the two-year anniversary of the publication of the first Snowden revelations, warns that governments are looking to maintain and expand mass surveillance, despite the practice being condemned as a human rights violation by courts, parliaments and human rights bodies. It comes on the heels of the adoption of the USA Freedom Act by the US Congress, a solitary and limited example of legislative rollback of surveillance powers since Edward Snowden's revelations began."

See the full report: Two Years After Snowden: Protecting human rights in an age of mass surveillance (pdf)

See also: Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance (New York Times, link) by Edward Snowden:

"For the first time since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resilience and reason. With each court victory, with every change in the law, we demonstrate facts are more convincing than fear. As a society, we rediscover that the value of a right is not in what it hides, but in what it protects."

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