U.S. surveillance programs are causing lawyers and...
U.S. surveillance programs are causing lawyers and journalists to significantly alter how they work, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a joint report released Monday (http://bit.ly/1k3GMGT). The report, based on interviews with numerous…
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journalists, lawyers and U.S. government officials, details the steps that many have taken to secure confidential communications and sources, said a release (http://bit.ly/1l7tAvW). “The report finds that government surveillance and secrecy are undermining press freedom, the public’s right to information and the right to counsel, all human rights essential to a healthy democracy,” said HRW and the ACLU. “The US holds itself out as a model of freedom and democracy, but its own surveillance programs are threatening the values it claims to represent,” said Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow at HRW and the ACLU. “The US should genuinely confront the fact that its massive surveillance programs are damaging many critically important rights."