06
Mar
Travellers’ Surveillance: Why the UN Should Stop Supporting the Surveillance of Travellers in the Name of Countering Terrorism
[Tomaso Falchetta is the Global Advocacy Coordinator at Privacy International] The last two decades have witnessed a sustained, widespread increase of securitisation and surveillance of international borders with every new major geopolitical development. Among many examples are 9/11, the Syrian conflict and the emergence of the foreign fighters’ phenomenon, COVID-19 Pandemic, etc. These in turn further strengthened the hand of those...