{"id":131076,"date":"2014-07-17T18:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=131076"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:59:16","slug":"u-n-nations-hide-rise-private-digital-snooping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-n-nations-hide-rise-private-digital-snooping\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N.: Nations Hide Rise in Private Digital Snooping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">Stepping into a fierce debate over digital privacy rights, the U.N. human rights office says it has strong evidence of a growing complicity among private companies in government spying. It says governments around the world are using both legal and covert methods to access private content and metadata, amounting to &#8220;de facto coercion&#8221; of companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"smalltext\" style=\"color: #000000;\">John Heilprin<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Governments on every continent are hiding an increasing reliance on private companies to snoop on citizens&#8217; digital lives, the U.N. human rights office said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Stepping into a fierce debate over digital privacy rights, the U.N. office says it has strong evidence of a growing complicity among private companies in government spying. It says governments around the world are using both legal and covert methods to access private content and metadata.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54489\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snooping.jpg\" alt=\"snooping\" width=\"313\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snooping.jpg 313w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snooping-75x39.jpg 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/snooping-150x77.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said the lack of transparency and tactics extends to governments&#8217; &#8220;de facto coercion&#8221; of companies to gain broad access to information and\u00a0data\u00a0on citizens without them knowing. Among the evidence the U.N. cited is its questionnaire to member nations, European court rulings and a European Digital Rights report on the &#8220;slide&#8221; from corporate self-regulation to self-censorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The report to the U.N. General Assembly says concerns about the erosion in privacy have increased since last year&#8217;s revelations of U.S. and British mass surveillance. It said stricter laws are needed to prevent violations and ensure accountability when digital technology and surveillance is misused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/news\/U-N---Nations-Hide-Digital-Snooping\/story.xhtml?story_id=101003HFKSAI\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping into a fierce debate over digital privacy rights, the U.N. human rights office says it has strong evidence of a growing complicity among private companies in government spying. It says governments around the world are using both legal and covert methods to access private content and metadata, amounting to &#8220;de facto coercion&#8221; of companies. 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