The United Nations
adopted a resolution on Tuesday urging all countries to protect the
right to privacy in digital communications and to offer their citizens a
way to seek “remedy” if their privacy is violated.
Though
not legally binding, the resolution signaled growing international
attention to the issue of digital privacy, which it described as a human
right.
The
measure passed by consensus in the General Assembly’s human rights
committee, which meant that it was not put up for a vote. But it was a
result of intense closed-door negotiations, and it set the stage for a
showdown in Geneva next spring, when the issue is expected to go to the
Human Rights Council. Privacy advocates are pushing for the United
Nations to establish a special envoy.
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