How much does your government spy on you? UN may rank the snoopers


  • TECH
  • Friday, 01 Mar 2019

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GENEVA: A UN human rights expert has published a draft list of questions to measure countries' privacy safeguards, a first step towards ranking the governments that are potentially doing the most snooping on their own citizens.

Joseph Cannataci, the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy, submitted the draft questionnaire – touching on everything from chatrooms to systematic surveillance – to the UN Human Rights Council, and invited comments by June 30.

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