Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account
As new technologies upend traditional power structures grounded in an information asymmetry between the state and its populace, governments are finding new ways to entrench state secrecy and inhibit individual secrecy. The global migration of everyday activities to the online realm is being met by s...
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| description | As new technologies upend traditional power structures grounded in an information asymmetry between the state and its populace, governments are finding new ways to entrench state secrecy and inhibit individual secrecy. The global migration of everyday activities to the online realm is being met by surveillance technologies and techniques which have turned the Internet into a virtual panopticon. As states seek to legitimize the extension of surveillance into almost every realm of public and private lives, they are constructing legal frameworks that embed technical capabilities in layers of secrecy and opacity, rolling back hard-won legal protections and removing surveillance from the jurisdiction of accountability and redress mechanisms. This article focuses on the multiple layers of human rights violations inflicted by modern state spycraft. First, the inhibition of the enjoyment of rights such as privacy, free association, speech and opinion, and second, the deprivation of citizens from access to information, redress and the ability to engage in legislative and democratic debates on an even playing field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41b0683d44c243f284f422b8d5816e9e2023-05-03T16:10:47ZengPluto JournalsState Crime2046-60562046-60642018-03-017182310.13169/statecrime.7.1.0008Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's AccountCarly Nyst0Independent Consultant on Technology and Human RightsAs new technologies upend traditional power structures grounded in an information asymmetry between the state and its populace, governments are finding new ways to entrench state secrecy and inhibit individual secrecy. The global migration of everyday activities to the online realm is being met by surveillance technologies and techniques which have turned the Internet into a virtual panopticon. As states seek to legitimize the extension of surveillance into almost every realm of public and private lives, they are constructing legal frameworks that embed technical capabilities in layers of secrecy and opacity, rolling back hard-won legal protections and removing surveillance from the jurisdiction of accountability and redress mechanisms. This article focuses on the multiple layers of human rights violations inflicted by modern state spycraft. First, the inhibition of the enjoyment of rights such as privacy, free association, speech and opinion, and second, the deprivation of citizens from access to information, redress and the ability to engage in legislative and democratic debates on an even playing field.https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/statecrime.7.1.0008 |
| spellingShingle | Carly Nyst Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account State Crime |
| title | Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account |
| title_full | Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account |
| title_fullStr | Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account |
| title_full_unstemmed | Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account |
| title_short | Secrets and Lies: The Proliferation of State Surveillance Capabilities and the Legislative Secrecy Which Fortifies Them – An Activist's Account |
| title_sort | secrets and lies the proliferation of state surveillance capabilities and the legislative secrecy which fortifies them an activist s account |
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