Rights groups urge UN to adopt resolution against unlawful surveillance

[JURIST] Five human rights groups urged the UN General Assembly on Thursday to adopt a resolution [text, PDF] protecting the right of privacy against unlawful surveillance. In a letter to the assembly, the groups, Amnesty International, Access, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Privacy International and Human Rights Watch [advocacy websites], claimed [letter] that "indiscriminate mass surveillance" infringes on the rights of private citizens and undermines the "social contract we all have with the State." The letter noted that the resolution's adoption...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/human-rights-groups-urge-un-to-adopt-resolution-against-unlawful-surveillance.php

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