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Dispatch from Geneva: Notes on a post-Snowden UN

31st October 2013

What a difference a few months, and some intelligence agency leaks, make. In early June an important report warning of increasing State surveillance was submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council. It was met with barely more than scant attention. Days later, Edward Snowden’s leaks hit the front page of the Guardian, and woke the world up to how intelligence agencies in the US and UK are using questionable legal justifications to spy on their own citizens and the world. So when a…