Can human rights law bend mass surveillance?

Artikel

There is an increasing gap between the right to privacy and contemporary surveillance schemes. As a concrete example, the US surveillance operation PRISM and its impact on European citizens' right to privacy is discussed. This paper provides a brief introduction to PRISM, continues with an outline of the right to privacy as stipulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Directive on Data Protection, and moves on to discuss whether international human rights law may be used to bend mass surveillance.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Internet Policy Review ; ISSN: 2197-6775 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2014 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 1-9 ; Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Privacy ; Human rights ; Data protection ; Surveillance ; PRISM ; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Joergensen, Rikke Frank
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2014

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.14763/2014.1.249
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/213983
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET