Poland’s president approved surveillance legislation that will increase the state’s ability to track its citizens, Swissinfo reports. The law “expands the authorities’ access to digital data and loosens the legal framework limiting surveillance by law enforcement” while elongating the legal period for surveillance and “permitting a broader range of potential targets,” the report states. The move is “a major blow to human rights,” said advocacy group Amnesty International. Poland’s Ombudsman also maintained that “some of the new bill may be still be unconstitutional,” and as such its office “will challenge the new law in the constitutional court,” the report states.
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