Human Rights and Foreign Surveillance: Privacy in the Digital Age
12:00pm - 1:30pm /
Monday 7th March 2016
/ Venue: Room 101/102 Roxbury
Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Rachel Barrett
- Admission: Free
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A talk for the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit by Dr Marko Milanovic Associate Professor, University of Nottingham School of Law
The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden of the scope and magnitude of electronic surveillance programs run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and some of its partners, chief among them the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have provoked intense and ongoing public debate regarding the proper limits of such intelligence activities. Privacy activists decry such programs, especially those involving the mass collection of the data or communications of ordinary individuals across the globe, arguing that they create an inhibiting surveillance climate that diminishes basic freedoms, while government officials justify them as being necessary for the prevention of terrorism. This talk will look at is how the legality of such programs would be debated and assessed within the framework of international human rights law, and specifically under the major human rights treaties to which the ‘Five Eyes’ and other states with sophisticated technological capabilities are parties. The talk will focus specifically on the threshold question of whether human rights treaties even apply to extraterritorial surveillance.Register here.
The 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden of the scope and magnitude of electronic surveillance programs run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and some of its partners, chief among them the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have provoked intense and ongoing public debate regarding the proper limits of such intelligence activities. Privacy activists decry such programs, especially those involving the mass collection of the data or communications of ordinary individuals across the globe, arguing that they create an inhibiting surveillance climate that diminishes basic freedoms, while government officials justify them as being necessary for the prevention of terrorism. This talk will look at is how the legality of such programs would be debated and assessed within the framework of international human rights law, and specifically under the major human rights treaties to which the ‘Five Eyes’ and other states with sophisticated technological capabilities are parties. The talk will focus specifically on the threshold question of whether human rights treaties even apply to extraterritorial surveillance.Register here.