| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["govermance"],"appCategory":"govermance","appTitle":"Is it legal for the government of a country to spy on it's citizens?","appBody":"<p>I think the question of legality depends on the law of a country and the reason a government would want to spy on its citizens. Most country's government would spy on its citizens if they are suspected to be a threat to national security and the question of legality or illegality does not even arise here. However, aside matters of national security, I really do not know if there are countries that legalizes spying on their citizens for any other reasons. This would be tantamount to infringing on the fundamental human rights of those citizens and also amount to breaking international human right laws.</p>\n<p>So, in answering your question and if the international human right laws are to be obeyed, it is not legal for any government of an country to spy on its citizen. However, this would change if the reason for spying has to do with national security. Hope this helps.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkr9xbraw","appParentAuthor":"thomas90","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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