Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/277946 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
32nd European Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Realising the digital decade in the European Union – Easier said than done?", Madrid, Spain, 19th - 20th June 2023
Publisher: 
International Telecommunications Society (ITS), Calgary
Abstract: 
"We kill people based on metadata" - this statement by the former head of the American National Security Agency (NSA) Michael Hayden captures the potentially severe impacts of communications metadata surveillance. Such data, i.e., information on who communicates with whom, for how long, where, and through which device, have enabled states to identify suspicious patterns in communications (Murray & Fussey, 2019). In recent years, governments have instrumentalized extraordinary events and crises to further expand the mass monitoring of communications metadata, for example during the COVID-19 pandemic (Lyon, 2022) or in the ongoing quest to protect children online (e.g., the European Commission's proposal to require certain online communications service providers to monitor even encrypted private communication, COM(2022) 209 final). (...)
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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