EU committee of Civil Liberties: Detention of David Miranda, violation of EU Human Rights Convention

[Luminous Animal]

"Considers that the detention of Mr Miranda and the seizure of the material in his possession under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (and also the request to The Guardian to destroy or hand over the material) constitutes an interference with the right of freedom of expression as recognised by Article 10 of the ECHR and Article 11 of the EU Charter;"

Link to the pdf:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/libe/dv/moraes_1014703_/moraes_1014703_en.pdf

[Luminous Animal]

1. Kick

[Luminous Animal]

2. More: The surveillance programs are not in line with "democratic checks and balances."

It calls on US authorities and EU member states to "prohibit blanket mass surveillance activities and bulk processing of personal data," adding:

[The committee] sees the surveillance programmes as yet another step towards the establishment of a fully fledged preventive state, changing the established paradigm of criminal law in democratic societies, promoting instead a mix of law enforcement and intelligence activities with blurred legal safeguards, often not in line with democratic checks and balances and fundamental rights, especially the presumption of innocence. [Emphasis added.]

This kind of policing, it warns, is leading to "every citizen being treated as a suspect." For that reason, the report notes that the committee

http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2014/01/eu-surveillance-inquiry-report-snowden-leaks-nsa-gchq.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Human Rights and Freedom of the Press are so 19th century and unAmerican.

[SidDithers]

4. Damn those Europeans for being unAmerican!!...nt

Sid

[dionysus]

5. damn you Sid...

[BelgianMadCow]

6. Thanks for posting, LuminousAnimal

This chimes with an earlier report which condemned the NSA overreach "in the strongest possible terms" after hearing Greenwald and before inviting Snowden, as they plan to do.