“You cannot have mass surveillance, it is simply a violation of international law,” said Salil Shetty, secretary general of Amnesty International, who dismissed the choice between privacy and security as “a false debate”. “This question of the right to privacy has to be one of the defining issues of our times,” he said. US Senator Patrick J. Leahy, who works on security and privacy issues, said the United States was “collecting far too much information, and it’s not making us safer.” “My concern is the extent a government can snoop on you and alter your ability to act as a free individual,” he said. He feared a world where an individual’s personal history on the Internet, stored away forever, could far too easily be turned against the innocent user.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:16:22 +0000
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