A newly released UN report warns that human rights standards have fallen behind rapid advances in surveillance technology, arguing that states have an obligation to “revise national laws regulating [surveillance] in line with human rights standards.”...The report was authored by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Frank La Rue...The Rapporteur’s Report comes on the eve of the publication of a list of principles crafted by members of the civil society, with the input from industry and international experts in communications surveillance law, policy, and technology. Like the Report, “The Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance” describe the values that underlie a rights-respecting communications surveillance law and are founded on existing international human rights laws.