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EU: Human rights in Europe should not buckle under mass surveillance

16 February 2016

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"European countries have made remarkable progress in the last decades to ensure individual freedoms and shield people from undue state interference. The European system of human rights protection is today among the most advanced in the world. However, there is little room for complacency: a number of cracks have appeared in this system and are widening.

One of the biggest comes from counter-terrorism measures considered or enacted across Europe, in particular those which increase mass surveillance. Many of these measures grant more intrusive powers to security services to snoop on our lives and centralise powers in the hands of the executive, thus circumventing judicial safeguards necessary in any democracy rooted in the rule of law."

See the full text: Human rights in Europe should not buckle under mass surveillance (OpenDemocracy, link by Nils Muižnieks)

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