CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Rahman, Md Rezaur |
|---|---|
| Title | South asian communication surveillance and right to privacy in digital age |
| Summary | Abstract South Asian constitutional democracy and human rights movements have suffered severe setbacks since inception of their statehood, particularly the decade after the militant attacks in the United States (US) on September 11, 2001. In the wake of several terrorist attacks, the South Asian governments and private sector sponsored surveillance measures have been newly introduced by many authoritarian and repressive governments like Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and arguably have taken the opportunity to legitimize their repressive actions and re-justify existing laws in the defense of national security exception. Therefore, state and private sector sponsored ‘communication surveillance’ is particularly stimulating case study for South Asian human rights and online community because of pervasive nature of communication surveillance. The primary objective of this research is to explore and analyze the political, social, legal or juridical and administrative environment of communication surveillance in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. By doing so, this research investigates emerging South Asian communication landscape and state sponsored crimes against digital rights and internet freedoms, analyze major international human rights frameworks and problematic national legal and administrative regimes of communication surveillance. It also broadly explores the key trends, nature and modalities of communication surveillance technologies and challenges for human rights defenders and online activists. The focus of this research largely comparative and contemporary in nature. |
| Supervisor | Parmar,Sejal |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/rahman_rezaur.pdf |
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