EU privacy watchdog calls for safeguards on exporting surveillance technologies to third countries
Existing regulation does not take into account if a country doesn't have safeguards in place for using interception technologies, says Giovanni Buttarelli
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Giovanni Buttarelli, has called for existing controls on the export of surveillance and interception technologies to third world countries to be strengthened....
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