FIDH and LDH to file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair

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FIDH and LDH file lawsuit in the Snowden Affair

The World | 11.07.2013 at 08:30

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the League of Human Rights (LDH) will file a complaint on Thursday in Paris, in the case of world espionage by the NSA, the American electronic communications agency.

Speaking live on France Info, a lawyer for the FIDH and LDH, Mr. Emmanuel Daoud, said that this particular complaint against X aimed to clarify the role that Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Paltak, Facebook, Youtube, Skype, AOL and Apple played in the Prism scandal.

According to him, "at different times," these companies "are likely to have made their servers available to the FBI and NSA for the U.S. intelligence agencies to penetrate them and have direct access to permanently to collect, siphon all that data of their Internet customers using the services of these companies."

Mr. Daoud suggests that they maybe "didn't tell the whole truth" when they affirmed they weren't aware of the Prism program. The French subsidiaries of these companies are also likely to be the subject of investigations, added Mr. Daoud.

On France Info, the attorney stated that they were likely to be charged with unauthorized "access, collection of personal data, invasion of privacy, violating the secrecy of electronic correspondence. " "We have not had such an infringement on individual freedoms, so massive and from a foreign state, that potentially affects all French citizens, all French Internet users when they use Google, Microsoft, Apple, Skype and other companies also covered," according to Mr. Daoud.

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http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2013/07/11/la-fidh-et-la-ldh-portent-plainte-dans-l-affaire-snowden_3445855_651865.html

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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the oldest international human rights organisation worldwide and today brings together 164 member organisations in over 100 countries.

FIDH is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and independent of any government. Its core mandate is to promote respect for all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.[3][4]

FIDH co-ordinates and supports the actions of its members and is their contact with intergovernmental organisations.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Federation_for_Human_Rights