The role of digital access providers 2017, para. 17
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- Government surveillance today relies on access to communications and associated data belonging to users of privately owned networks. While such access frequently requires the assistance of private actors, it may also be obtained without their knowledge or involvement. As with other forms of surveillance, government access to user data may interfere with privacy in a manner that can both directly and indirectly limit the free development and exchange of ideas (see A/HRC/23/40, para. 24). Undue access to personal data implicitly warns users to think twice and possibly avoid controversial viewpoints, the exchange of sensitive information and other exercises of freedom of expression that may be under government scrutiny (see A/HRC/27/37, para. 20).
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 17
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