The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age

A/RES/68/167View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 69b Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

11 versions · 2014–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/175

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/175	The right to privacy in the digital age	5,325	81%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/211	The right to privacy in the digital age	4,500	79%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/176	The right to privacy in the digital age	3,702	36%Compare
2019	A/HRC/RES/42/15	The right to privacy in the digital age	2,872	27%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/179	The right to privacy in the digital age	2,876	7%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Cybercrime Digital Technology Right to Privacy

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the right to privacy, according to which no one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, and the right to the protection of the law against such interference, as set out in article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights1 and article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;2

Recognizes the global and open nature of the Internet and the rapid advancement in information and communications technologies as a driving force in accelerating progress towards development in its various forms;

Affirms that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, including the right to privacy;

Calls upon all States:

To respect and protect the right to privacy, including in the context of digital communication;

To take measures to put an end to violations of those rights and to create the conditions to prevent such violations, including by ensuring that relevant national legislation complies with their obligations under international human rights law;

To review their procedures, practices and legislation regarding the surveillance of communications, their interception and the collection of personal data, including mass surveillance, interception and collection, with a view to upholding the right to privacy by ensuring the full and effective implementation of all their obligations under international human rights law;

To establish or maintain existing independent, effective domestic oversight mechanisms capable of ensuring transparency, as appropriate, and accountability for State surveillance of communications, their interception and the collection of personal data;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy in the context of domestic and extraterritorial surveillance and/or the interception of digital communications and the collection of personal data, including on a mass scale, to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session and to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session, with views and recommendations, to be considered by Member States;

Decides to examine the question at its sixty-ninth session, under the sub-item entitled “Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms” of the item entitled “Promotion and protection of human rights”.

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