The Right to Privacy: A Global Issue
November 17, 2009 at 10:58 am by Philip LeggiereThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights both recognize the right to privacy as a fundamental human right. Ensuring, protecting and extending that right in a world of growing international collaboration between governments, police, and developers of surveillance technologies, however, is a vexing challenge. Addressing that challenge, human rights activists from throughout the world earlier this month issued The Madrid Privacy Declaration, which may well mark the prophetic tipping point in the emergence of a new global civil rights movement.
Tags: privacy, surveillance
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