Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently wrote an article on Lawfare, “Safe and Free: National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards Across Rule-of-Law States.” The decade since Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks has been characterized by global debates on intelligence agencies respecting civil liberties and privacy, with major reforms enacted in rule-of-law democracies. The new project, “Safe and Free,” by the Robert Strauss Center aims to foster genuine comparative study on surveillance laws and oversight structures.
“‘Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States,’ aims to spur the comparative study of surveillance and to move that field beyond the narrow, often rivalrous, transatlantic comparisons of the post-Snowden era. Instead, the Safe and Free series harnesses comparative study to gain insight about oversight structures, transparency, legal remedies, and political and technological trends affecting many rule-of-law democracies,” writes Klein.
If you would like to read more, the article can be found here.
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