Companies could face fines if they refuse to share client data requested by government agencies. (Photo: EPA)The most egregious rights violations tend to happen against the voiceless; those who have neither the platform nor resources to articulate their grievances to the broader world.
Last week, however, the US Department of Justice was caught in a very public transgression against the freedom of an influential and empowered private organisation when it was revealed that it had https://www.nbcnews.com/video/cnbc/51878944/ engaged in a spying campaign against the Associated Press (AP) – one of the country’s largest news agencies.
In what has been described as a https://bigstory.ap.org/article/govt-obtains-wide-ap-phone-records-probe massive and unprecedented intrusion”, AP revealed that Obama’s Department of Justice had engaged in a surveillance campaign targeting its reporters and editors. This campaign included the covert acquisition of phone records from AP staff; including from their home and personal cell numbers.
