Civil Liberties Union Starts Proceedings on Secret Surveillance in Hungary
- 31 Jan 2022 7:49 AM
- Hungary Around the Clock
The Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) is initiating proceedings on behalf of six clients with Hungarian authorities, the European Commission, the European Court of Human Rights and in Israel, alleging illegal secret surveillance, the human rights organisation announced on Friday.
The TASZ wants international authorities to declare that Hungarian regulations on secret information-gathering violate fundamental rights and aims to prevent politically motivated abuses.
The NGO says it has long warned that the secret services have practically unlimited licences for surveillance in Hungary as, instead of an independent body, a politically committed minister authorises the collection of information and decides whether such surveillance is lawful.
There are no external controls and the targeted persons have no way of knowing whether data about them has been collected unlawfully and they have no access to legal remedies, TASZ says, adding that “the Pegasus case has shown that this is not a theoretical problem”.
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