Privacy under scrutiny

The Helsinki Committee notes that the proposed amendments and supplements to the Law on Electronic Communications present severe interference in the sphere of privacy of citizens with illegal and arbitrary access of the body for interception of communications, without any adequate guarantees against abuse. These solutions are threat for the human rights and according to the assessment of the European Court of Human Rights carry the risk that a secret surveillance system may undermine and even destroy the democracy in a state.

Therefore, the Helsinki Committee calls on the proposer of the amendments (the Ministry of Transport and Communications) to remove the disputed articles and to withdraw the draft amendments to the Law on Electronic Communications from parliamentary procedure.