FIDH and LDH file a complaint for infringement of personal data
Source: International Federation for Human Rights
Update 11 July 2013
Today, FIDH and LDH filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor of the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Paris against unknown person in relation to the facts revealed by Mr. Edward Snowden. (See also recent Press Release : [link:http://www.fidh.org/international-protection-for-whistleblowers-should-be-increased-13624|
International protection for whistleblowers should be increased])
FIDH and LDH, acting on the grounds of their organisation’s mandate that includes the fight against infringements of personal liberties through automated data processing and on the grounds of their personal harm, have filed this complaint on the basis of articles 323-1, 226-18, 226-1 and 226-2 of the French Criminal Code.
These articles refer to fraudulent access to an automated data processing system, collection of personal data by fraudulent means, wilful violation of the intimacy of the private life and the use and conservation of recordings and documents obtained through such means.
The information given to the press by Mr. Edward Snowden has revealed the existence of an American programme called PRISM (Planning Tool for Resource Integration Synchronization and Management) that collects data from servers of various Internet service providers (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Paltalk, Facebook, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple).
Under the guise of combatting terrorism and organised crime, this system for intercepting personal data of both American citizens and foreign individuals and associations has enabled the NSA and the FBI to collect material data kept on the servers of the aforementioned companies. This includes the history of Internet searches and connections on the web, the contents of emails, audio and video communications, photo files, document transfers and the contents of online chats.
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This blatant intrusion into individuals’ lives represents a serious threat to individual liberties and, if not stopped, may lead to the end of the rule of law.
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Read more: http://www.fidh.org/fidh-and-ldh-file-a-complaint-for-infringement-of-personal-data-13648
More articles (translated) here: FIDH and LDH to file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair
The complaint, in French, here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/153099627/Plainteprism-Finale
International Federation for Human Rights
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the oldest international human rights organisation worldwide and today brings together 164 member organisations in over 100 countries.
FIDH is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and independent of any government. Its core mandate is to promote respect for all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[3][4]
FIDH co-ordinates and supports the actions of its members and is their contact with intergovernmental organisations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Federation_for_Human_Rights
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International League of Human Rights
The Human Rights League (in French Ligue des droits de l'homme [et du citoyen] or LDH) of France, is a Human Rights NGO association to observe, defend and promulgation of Rights Man within the French Republic in all spheres of public life. The LDH is a member of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH).[1][2]
The League was founded on 4 June 1898 by the republican Ludovic Trarieux to defend captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew wrongly convicted for treason - this would be known as the Dreyfus Affair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_League_%28France%29
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