Mass surveillance seen as a danger to fundamental human rights

Mass Internet surveillance endangers fundamental human rights and has not helped to prevent terrorist attacks, a top European human rights body concluded after analyzing documents leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013. The leaks detailing government mass surveillance programs have shown "compelling evidence" of "far-reaching, technologically advanced systems" put in place by U.S. intelligence services and their partners to collect, store and analyze communication data on a massive scale, which threaten fundamental privacy rights , a report by the legal affairs and human rights committee of the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe found.



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