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Every time I see reports about US surveillance, I'm amazed how so many people seem to think that the US government can spy on anyone they like as long as they'r
by soraminazuki 11y ago
Every time I see reports about US surveillance, I'm
amazed how so many people seem to think that the US government can spy on anyone they like as long as they're not Americans. Are non-Americans denied their basic human rights or what?
- themartorana 11y agoI'm pretty sure privacy is not considered a basic human right. For that matter, neither is freedom from water boarding, so YMMV.
- vacri 11y agoWaterboarding definitely is, according to the American Convention on Human Rights, to which the US is a signatory: http://www.oas.org/dil/treaties_B-32_American_Convention_on_Human_Rights.htm http://www.oas.org/dil/treaties_B-32_American_Convention_on_... It's article 5.2, sandwiched in-between 'you have the right not to be murdered' and 'you have the right not to be enslaved'. Article 11 is fairly wishy-washy, but it states that privacy is also considered a human right.
- vacri 11y agoI find it disturbing as well. There's a particular strain of political thought in the US where bad things that happen to people don't count if they're not US citizens, for some reason.