GENEVA - A United Nations investigator says the rise of the private surveillance industry and the targeting of individuals by digital surveillance technology is undermining freedom of expression and putting the lives of many individuals at risk. He recognizes that governments may have a valid and critical need to use surveillance technology in to confront criminal activity, such as terrorism. But he says he finds the transfer of private digital surveillance technology to governments that use it as a tool of repression very worrisome. He says the private surveillance industry operates in the shadows, developing and marketing the technologies in highly secretive settings. Kaye is calling for an immediate moratorium on the global sale, transfer and use of the tools of the private surveillance industry.

Source: Ethiopian News June 26, 2019 15:33 UTC