On November 26th, 2013, the U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee unanimously adopted the Brazil and Germany sponsored resolution to protect the right to privacy against unlawful surveillance. This is a follow-up story to the last post in which the U.S. privately wanted to kill such a resolution. Stated by Brazil’s Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota 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." The U.S. didn't’t fight it after speculation that it wanted to change some of the language in the resolution to favor them in terms of being able to “spy” overseas.
I believe that the adopting of the
resolution by the U.N. was the right decision as people deserve their privacy no
matter what the medium may be. Now, with
the fact that technology is so prominent in our society we have a right to be
protected from not only being spied on and intruded upon, but also to have that
right everywhere in the world and not solely in the states. I think far too many times our human rights
are violated and the fact that steps are being taken to prevent such things
from occurring is a wonderful thing and is definitely a step in the right
direction.
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