National laws regulating State involvement in communications surveillance are mostly inadequate or simply do not exist. To demonstrate their commitment to protect privacy and to ensure people can communicate freely, States can start by immediately revising their own laws and the role of the judiciary, in order to correct serious gaps that exist in most national legal frameworks.
UN Special Rapporteur Frank La Rue on the recent recognition by the UN of a Global Right to Privacy. The issues, though, are larger than privacy and will require us to first understand those laws.















