The systematic monitoring of citizens by the state in
Peru was revealed in 2000, after the collapse of the
second administration of ex-president Alberto Fujimori
(1995-2000). Fujimori resigned in his last year
in office, after a network of government espionage
and corruption was revealed. This included video
recordings of secret meetings and alleged communications
surveillance conducted and managed by
presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, working
with the National Intelligence Service (SIN). This
systematic surveillance by the state resulted in the
dissemination of private information, recordings
and videos of public officials, journalists and many
other influential people.
These events sparked the beginning of the debate
around the purpose of surveillance in Peru,
and the violation of the right to private communications
by state agencies and private entities – and
what legislation could be developed to regulate
this. This discussion is ongoing, with more cases of
communications interception being revealed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/599314 |
| Date | 30 August 2014 |
| Creators | Bossio, Jorge, Gutierrez, Fabiola |
| Publisher | Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos) |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/report |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Global Information Society Watch 2014, http://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/rights_versus_crime_twenty_years_of_wiretapping_and_digital.pdf |
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