Edward Snowden to testify by live video-link at PACE hearing on ‘mass surveillance’
US whistleblower Edward Snowden is to testify from Moscow by live video-link at a parliamentary hearing on “mass surveillance” taking place at 2 p.m., Tuesday 8 April, on the margins of the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, the official website of PACE reported.
Other participants at the hearing, organized by PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, include the former head of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service Hansjörg Geiger, who has proposed a “codex” to regulate intelligence activities between friendly states, and London-based international law professor Douwe Korff.
On Wednesday, as part of its plenary session, the Assembly is due to debate a report on improving user protection and security in cyberspace, after an earlier hearing on state surveillance of the internet. And in a 2010 resolution, adopted following similar hearings, the Assembly also called for laws to protect whistleblowers.