1255 hrs/Sunday 16 June 2013
The week that went by saw intense debates and passionate arguments for and against the need for governments to spy for the security of their citizens and for protection of national economic interests.
What interests me, is not the debates themselves (I see nothing new in the crux of the arguments!), but the absence of any acknowledgement, that while technological innovations have taken the dimensions of spying to unprecedented levels, no appropriate innovations are being attempted in the international systems of justice to balance their impact on human rights or national economic sovereign rights. And if, indeed, there have been such innovative initiatives, very little media attention has been focused on them! Perhaps the custodians of our rights (the national and international courts of justice) owe us all some answers as to what they have been proactively doing and what innovations in approaches they see as the way forward.
Wishing you a great week ahead......
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