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Surveillance of peaceful assemblies in the OSCE region: human rights implications and strategies for independent monitoring
The rapid advance of digital technology and its growing deployment into protest policing has significant implications for the freedom of peaceful assembly. At the same time, new surveillance tools and practices have changed the nature of policing. These technologies offer law enforcement unprecedented potential to track, monitor and identify participants at assemblies. In short, despite their resemblance to existing tools, today’s advanced surveillance technologies represent a step change in the ability, scope and scale of law enforcement capability.
This report details how effective monitoring of surveillance tools is becoming increasingly challenging, and it demonstrates that the need to hold these powerful systems and their uses to account has never been more important.
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- Source:
- OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Publisher:
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Focus area(s):
- Freedom of peaceful assembly Human rights and new technologies
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