Publication Type: Reports

This study and opinion, undertaken in partnership with the Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade de Brasil, addresses the Brazilian Telecommunications Agency (Anatel)’s plan to block uncertified cell phones in Brazil.

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.

During the 110th session, the Human Rights Committee conducted its review of US human obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The shadow reported used the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance to address the US government’s failures to protect the rights to privacy and expression. It also examined the US government’s failure to comply with the Committee’s interpretation of the extraterritorial application of the ICCPR.

This report analyzes fake domains attacks that impersonate civil society and news organizations and provides recommendations towards mitigating such attacks.