Provisional version Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Mass surveillance Report∗ Rapporteur: Mr Pieter Omtzigt, Netherlands, Group of the European People's Party “Our freedom is built on what others do not know of our existences” Alexandr...
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Provisional version Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights Mass surveillance Report∗ Rapporteur: Mr Pieter Omtzigt, Netherlands, Group of the European People's Party “Our freedom is built on what others do not know of our existences” Alexandr Solzhenitsyn A. Draft resolution 1. The Parliamentary Assembly is deeply concerned about mass surveillance practices disclosed since June 2013 by journalists to whom a former US national security insider, Mr. Edward Snowden, had entrusted a large amount of top secret data establishing the existence of mass surveillance and large-scale intrusion practices hitherto unknown to the general public and even to most political decision-makers. 2. The information disclosed so far in the Snowden files has triggered a massive, world-wide debate about mass surveillance by the US and other countries’ intelligence services and the lack of adequate legal regulation and technical protection at the national and international level, and/or its effective enforc
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