Assertion: surveillance's use | /r/HasProperty | serious threat
Facets:
value: to constitutional rights
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to freedoms
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: A report by the House of Lords Constitution Committee, Surveillance: Citizens and the State, had warned in 2009 that increasing use of surveillance by the government and private companies was a serious threat to freedoms and constitutional rights, stating, "The expansion in the use of surveillance represents one of the most significant changes in the life of the nation since the end of World War II.