Surveillance Technology Needs More Oversight and Corporate Responsibility, Experts Say

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Privacy is essential to freedom of expression, said panelists at a New America Foundation event onnhuman rights and surveillance on Tuesday. Frank La Rue, UN special rapporteur on the promotion andnprotection of the right to freedom of expression and opinion, said every new technology changes the responsibilitiesnof government and corporations, but it does not necessarily bring in the need for new rights.nMinimum standards for human rights need to be set around the world, and for the illegal monitoring ofncommunications acceptable anywhere in the world, he said.