Tunisia’s Interior Ministry is taking advantage of the freeze on parliament in the hopes of pushing forward legislation that would create a biometric national identity card. The authority tasked with the protection of personal data as well as national and international NGOs have voiced their concerns about the proposed draft law and risks associated with its adoption.
More than 1500 individuals—including 500 minors—were arrested since January 2021 during protest movements against the current political and economic system. Besides arbitrary arrests, police also confiscated protestors’ telephones and breached their personal data.
Le 30 mai 2016, l’Instance nationale de protection des données personnelles a tenu sa première conférence de presse portant sur ses activités et les conditions dans lesquelles elle travaille.
Acknowledgement: The State of Surveillance in Tunisia is the result of an ongoing collaboration by Privacy International and Nawaat.
The Tunisian constitution of 2014 enshrines (via Article 24) the protection of privacy at home and in the domains of communications correspondence and personal data. The text itself conforms with European case law, but what about current legislation, its application, and its impact on Tunisians?
