The Commission’s proposal to fight online child sexual abuse is well intentioned, but badly executed. It would threaten encryption and harm our fundamental rights, including children's. Even without authoritarianism on the rise, this would be dangerous.
Since Snowden's revelations, journalists and writers have been self-censoring on a wide range of issues - and this is just one of the 'chilling effects' of mass surveillance.
American whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticizing the government's human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks....
Watch a former NSA expert turned whistleblower reveal the truth about mass surveillance to UK government.
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Davide Dormino's sculpture “Anything to say?” symbolizes the courage of whistleblowers and all those who fight to defend freedom of expression and information throughout the world.
Too little has been done to ensure that citizens' rights are protected following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, say civil liberties MEPs in an October resolution.
After Edward Snowden revealed confidential documents kept by the US National Security Agency, uncovering the data collection and monitoring of millions of people, whistleblowers have become a topic of public debate.
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