[Air-L] [New study] Bulk surveillance: International Compendium of Good Legal Safeguards and Oversight Innovations

Tue Nov 13 01:24:52 PST 2018

Maybe of interest to some of you? 

Kind regards, Kilian & Thorsten

*New study: International Compendium of Good Legal Safeguards and
Oversight Innovations for Bulk Surveillance*

https://www.stiftung-nv.de/en/publication/upping-ante-bulk-surveillance-international-compendium-good-legal-safeguards-and

Many people question the efficiency of bulk surveillance practices and
their compatibility with fundamental rights. Others worry about its
effect on the social fabric of democratic societies. Yet, most
parliaments have expanded, rather than curtailed, surveillance powers in
recent intelligence reforms. What is more, the European Court of Human
Rights recently upheld the Swedish regime for bulk interception of
foreign communications and called the practice a «valuable means» of
counterterrorism in its Big Brother Watch decision.

One may, therefore, assume that the practice of bulk communications
surveillance is here to stay. If that is the case, then it is high time
to subject national legal frameworks and their corresponding oversight
systems to a comparative review and to identify good practices. In an
attempt to fill a gap, Thorsten Wetzling and I have examined legal
safeguards and oversight practices in 13 different democracies. Our
compendium
<https://www.stiftung-nv.de/en/publication/upping-ante-bulk-surveillance-international-compendium-good-legal-safeguards-and>,
commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, features 64 promising
examples, that, we believe, increase the legitimacy and effectiveness of
bulk surveillance governance.

We welcome your feedback and additional ideas you may have.

Link to PDF:
https://www.stiftung-nv.de/sites/default/files/upping_the_ante_on_bulk_surveillance_v2.pdf

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