The Maltese government is still supporting its mass surveillance programme tooth and nail, while it is also resisting changes to legislation and the publication of surveillance statistics, according to the way in which Labour Party MEPs voted this week on a European Parliament resolution on mass surveillance. In a stark departure from the rest of the Socialist and Democrats parliamentary grouping, to which Malta’s Labour Party belongs, Malta’s three Labour MEPs all voted against a parliamentary resolution this week calling on member states to clean up their mass surveillance acts. The three local MEPs, along with one German Socialist, were the only S&D members to have voted...
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