The Need for Democratization of Digital Security Solutions to Ensure the...
Description: “As demonstrated by the Edward Snowden disclosures and other research, mass Internet surveillance as well as targeted digital threats present serious risks to human rights, including the...
View ArticleGlobal Information Society Watch 2014
Description: “The reports show, both states and businesses are complicit in communications surveillance. While there is a need for systems to monitor and protect the public from harm, the right to...
View ArticlePrivacy and Security: A modern and transparent legal framework
Description: “The internet has transformed the way we communicate and conduct our day-to-day lives. However, this has led to a tension between the individual right to privacy and the collective right...
View ArticleReport of the Interception of Communications Commissioner – March 2015
Description: “I regard my principal function as being to satisfy myself, and thus to report to the Prime Minister, that the Secretaries of State and the public authorities operating under the...
View ArticleGCHQ and Mass Surveillance
Description: “The Intelligence and Security Committee has published the findings of its Privacy and Security Inquiry. At the same time Open Rights Group is publishing its own report into the activities...
View ArticleHome Affairs Committee Report on Counter-Terrorism: Oversight of the...
Description: “The oversight of the security and intelligence agencies has long been a matter of concern for this Committee. In reports in 1992 and again in 1997[161] we have recommended that the...
View ArticlePublic Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era
Description: “Privacy evokes a constellation of concepts for Americans—some of them tied to traditional notions of civil liberties and some of them driven by concerns about the surveillance of digital...
View ArticleA Democratic Licence to Operate
The Independent Surveillance Review (ISR) was undertaken at the request of the then deputy prime minister partly in response to the allegation of mass surveillance made by Edward Snowden’s leaks of...
View ArticleManaging ‘Threats’: Uses of Social Media for Policing Domestic Extremism and...
Description: “The research examines two key areas of social media practices for policing: 1) the ways in which social media communication and data becomes identified as potential domestic ‘threats’ and...
View ArticleRelated Reports
Below you will find a list of related reports which have been produced around the issues of surveillance and citizenship. Each reports page contains a short description and link to to the original....
View ArticleDeclassified Report: The FBI Oversaw the NSA’s Email Surveillance
Description: “In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The New York Times, the Justice Department has partially declassified this report about the F.B.I.’s involvement in administering...
View ArticleReport: A Democratic Licence to Operate (RUSI)
The Independent Surveillance Review (ISR) [1] was undertaken at the request of the then deputy Prime Minister partly in response to the allegation of mass surveillance made by Edward Snowden’s leaks of...
View ArticleDeclassified Report: The FBI Oversaw the NSA’s Email Surveillance
Description: “In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The New York Times, the Justice Department has partially declassified this report about the F.B.I.’s involvement in administering...
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