UN body adopts resolution to protect individuals' universal privacy rights.
Source: Yahoo News
Wellington, Nov. 27 (ANI): The United Nations General Assembly's human rights committee has unanimously adopted a resolution to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance.
The resolution was sponsored by Brazil and Germany and comes after months of reports about US eavesdropping abroad.
The resolution seeks to extend personal privacy rights to all people, and comes after revelations that US carried out unlawful surveillance on foreign leaders, including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stuff.co.nz reports.
Brazil's Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota said the resolution 'establishes for the first time that human rights should prevail irrespective of the medium, and therefore need to be protected online and offline'.
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Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Will the US veto universal right to privacy or make it into nothing?
Does taxpayer money support Walmart's low wages?
Demeter
(85,373 posts)The world means it, Obama! Call off the NSA. Disband it, raze its infrastructure, dump its data.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... exactly what I was thinking. All in one line!
MisterP
(23,730 posts)and right alike!"
sincerely, The Claque Clique
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Spooky Business: U.S. Corporations Enlist Ex-Intelligence Agents to Spy on Nonprofit Groups
A new report details how corporations are increasingly spying on nonprofit groups they regard as potential threats. The corporate watchdog organization Essential Information found a diverse groups of nonprofits have been targeted with espionage, including environmental, antiwar, public interest, consumer safety, pesticide reform, gun control, social justice, animal rights and arms control groups. The corporations carrying out the spying include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonalds, Shell, BP, and others. According to the report, these corporations employ former CIA, National Security Agency and FBI agents to engage in private surveillance work, which is often illegal in nature but rarely if ever prosecuted. Were joined by Gary Ruskin, author of the report, "Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations," and director of the Center for Corporate Policy, a project of Essential Information.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/25/spooky_business_us_corporations_enlist_ex
Vox Moi
(546 posts)Maybe the US should listen to it.
I'm thinking of buying some stationary and sealing wax, at a store, and paying in cash.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)Think the UN will be able to make Israel and the US abide?
pampango
(24,692 posts)(And more power to them.)