Winning Essay of X Price Enrique Ruano Casanova: Massive Surveillance and the Right to Personal Data Protection
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The purpose of this piece of work is to show how the massive surveillance shown by Edward Snowden has a non reversible impact on basic rights of citizens, how it violates the principle of privacy, the right to non discrimination, the right to freedom of expression as well as the right to data protection. A number of EU and international bodies have shown their concern and disagreement on the pattern presented by international leaders to choose between freedom or safety. Surveillance is ok, but only in compliance with international standards of those human rights which prevent our basic rights from lessening.
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