Europe & ex-USSR - Council of Europe: regulating surveillance and protecting whistleblowers

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) supports the motion for a resolution regulating surveillance programmes and protecting whistleblowers that was tabled on 31 August by 23 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe representing more than 10 countries and all political groups. Tabled on the initiative of Pieter Omtzigt of the Group of the European People's Party, the proposed resolution would call on member states to regulate and control surveillance and to pass legislative (...)

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