Traduction de «electronic surveillance unit » (Anglais → Français) :

For international perspectives on similar problems in other countries, see United States, Going Dark: Lawful Electronic Surveillance in the Face of New Technologies, Hearing before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 112 Congress, 17 February 2011 (Valerie Caproni, General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation (59 kB, 8 pages)); and Council of Europe, Convention on Cybercrime: Explanatory Report, E.T.S. No. 185, n.d., para. 219. [ Return to text ]

O. whereas in its report of 12 December 2013, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technology proposes 46 recommendations to the President of the United States; whereas the recommendations stress the need simultaneously to protect national security and personal privacy and civil liberties; whereas in this regard it invites the US Government: to end bulk collection of phone records of US persons under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act as soon as practicable; to undertake a thorough review of the NSA and the US intelligence legal framework in order to ensure respect for the right to privacy; to end efforts t ...[+++]o subvert or make vulnerable commercial software (backdoors and malware); to increase the use of encryption, particularly in the case of data in transit, and not to undermine efforts to create encryption standards; to create a Public Interest Advocate to represent privacy and civil liberties before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; to confer on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board the power to oversee Intelligence Community activities for foreign intelligence purposes, and not only for counterterrorism purposes; and to receive whistleblowers’ complaints, to use Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties to obtain electronic communications, and not to use surveillance to steal industry or trade secrets;

N. whereas in its report of 12 December 2013, the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communication Technology proposes 46 recommendations to the President of the United States; whereas the recommendations stress the need simultaneously to protect national security and personal privacy and civil liberties; whereas in this regard it invites the US Government: to end bulk collection of phone records of US persons under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act as soon as practicable; to undertake a thorough review of the NSA and the US intelligence legal framework in order to ensure respect for the right to privacy; to end efforts to ...[+++] subvert or make vulnerable commercial software (backdoors and malware); to increase the use of encryption, particularly in the case of data in transit, and not to undermine efforts to create encryption standards; to create a Public Interest Advocate to represent privacy and civil liberties before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; to confer on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board the power to oversee Intelligence Community activities for foreign intelligence purposes, and not only for counterterrorism purposes; and to receive whistleblowers’ complaints, to use Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties to obtain electronic communications, and not to use surveillance to steal industry or trade secrets;

In the United Kingdom, the Youth Justice Board’s Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP) which has been in force since the summer of 2001, providing for close surveillance of young people, including electronic surveillance, is to be extended nationally.

I would also point out that in the United Kingdom, for example, all electronic surveillance under its 1985 legislation, which is now repealed, and its 2000 legislation is done under ministerial authorization.

A unique electronic alerting system, the Canadian Integrated Outbreak Surveillance Centre, allows local health units and provincial and territorial health departments to post alerts on proven or suspected outbreaks into a national system which is monitored daily by the Public Health Agency of Canada staff.