NEWS: Niger’s National Assembly is voting on a bill allowing the government to intercept communications.
The bill poses serious concerns, here is why [short thread]:
The bill poses serious concerns, here is why [short thread]:
1. The discretion to authorise interception requests lies exclusively with the President without any judicial oversight.
2. The bill creates a Commission to review authorisations after they’ve been granted. All but one of its members are appointed by government ministers.
3. The government has 72 hours to notify the Commission after granting an authorisation. In that period, an authorisation can be acted upon with zero oversight.
4. Even if the Commission disagrees with the authorisation, all it can do is make a non-binding recommendation.
What is communications surveillance and why is it dangerous?
Read more here: privacyinternational.org/explainer/1309…
Read more here: privacyinternational.org/explainer/1309…
