{"id":43115,"date":"2011-09-02T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=43115"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T16:02:10","slug":"human-rights-group-chides-tt-govt-announcement-of-social-media-spying-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/human-rights-group-chides-tt-govt-announcement-of-social-media-spying-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights group chides T&#038;T gov&#8217;t announcement of social media &#8216;spying&#8217; plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43116\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43116\" title=\"Anand Ramlogan\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Anand-Ramlogan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Anand-Ramlogan.jpg 255w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Anand-Ramlogan-145x113.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T&amp;T attorney gneral, Anand Ramlogan, wants legislation to monitor social media networks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Human Rights Watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a release concerning Trinidad and Tobago, in which the organisation notes the government&#8217;s announcement that legislation will be drafted to permit the government to monitor social media networks to &#8220;ensure they are not being abused and misused by persons who have hidden agendas and sinister and malicious motives to incite persons and to use it to form gangs of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full release from EFF:<\/p>\n<p>Since August 21, parts of Trinidad &amp; Tobago have been under a state of emergency, enacted in response to a recent crime wave. Citizens&#8217; rights to freedom of movement, assembly, association, speech, and privacy are affected by elements of the country&#8217;s Emergency Powers Regulations.<\/p>\n<p>News this week has circulated around a video in which a 14-year-old girl, responding to the declaration of a State of Emergency and accompanying curfew restrictions, threatened Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. According to Trinidad &amp; Tobago&#8217;s CTV, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan responded to the incident by suggesting that laws will be brought to parliament to regulate and monitor the use of social networks:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have in fact asked the Acting Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Mr. Cuthbert Jolly, and the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, Mr. Samraj Harripaul, to undertake an immediate assignment with a view to drafting laws to take to Parliament, to deal with the regulation and monitoring of the social networking sites to ensure (they) are not being abused and misused by persons who have hidden agendas and sinister and malicious motives to incite persons and to use it to form gangs of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a release concerning Trinidad and Tobago, in which the organisation notes the government&#8217;s announcement that legislation will be drafted to permit the government to monitor social media networks to &#8220;ensure they&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":43116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Human rights group chides T&amp;T gov&#039;t announcement of social media &#039;spying&#039; 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