by Dinah PoKempner, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA – A strong global right to electronic privacy demands recognition, in U.S. law and internationally. In a world where almost all aspects of daily social and economic life have migrated online, the right to privacy has gained in importance, and not just for the paranoid few. It is a necessity for human rights activists and ordinary citizens around the world to freely speak, think, and associate without restrictions imposed by those who might wish to silence or harm them. At the same time, corporations and governments have acquired frightening abilities to amass and search these endless digital records…
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