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A group of digital and civil rights organisations throughout Latin America writing to express full support for the efforts to update, harmonise and strengthen data protection laws in the European Union, through the European Commission’s proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation (COM(2012)11).

Un grupo de organizaciones de derechos digitales y humanos en toda América Latina escriben para expresar su pleno apoyo a los esfuerzos para actualizar, armonizar y reforzar las leyes de protección de datos en la Unión Europea, a través de la propuesta de la Comisión Europea del Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (COM (2012) 11)

The four post-Soviet Central Asian republics discussed here—Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan— have problematic records with respect to electronic surveillance with little regard to international norms of due process, privacy, and transparency. While there have been some noteworthy victories with respect to regulating Western companies’ exports of surveillance technology to other difficult regions such as the Middle East, a different approach is needed in a region with a large Russian presence such as Central Asia.

The four post-Soviet Central Asian republics discussed here—Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan— have problematic records with respect to electronic surveillance with little regard to international norms of due process, privacy, and transparency. While there have been some noteworthy victories with respect to regulating Western companies’ exports of surveillance technology to other difficult regions such as the Middle East, a different approach is needed in a region with a large Russian presence such as Central Asia.