First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016 2016, para. 38
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- In the light of the above, the new draft German law prima facie suggests that the German authorities have not learned anything from the October 2015 report by Mr. Muižnieks. Instead of providing the Special Rapporteur with a model law which can be used as an example of good practice around the world, the Government of Germany has come up with something which is worse than disappointing. With all its many defects, the United Kingdom draft Investigatory Powers Bill at least attempted to partly rectify the weak oversight regime previously criticized by the Special Rapporteur and others. While far from perfect, the new proposed oversight regime in the United Kingdom would appear to be an improvement over the previous situation. Not so in Germany which, unless it pulls back from the brink and radically changes course, promises to take over the position hitherto held by the United Kingdom as the country with the weakest oversight regime in the western world in proportion to the size of its intelligence services.
- Status juridique
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Organe
- Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
- Type de document
- Special Procedures' report
- Mode d'adoption
- N.A.
- Thèmes
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- N.A.
- Année
- 2016
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 38
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