Are You In On the UN Privacy Resolution?

Our Canadian leaders are not saying much. In a recent statement to Global News, the Deputy Director of Communications from the Prime Minister’s office simply stated that, “the government is focused on ensuring the safety and security of Canadians.”

The UN resolution speaks directly to this ‘notion’ of security by explaining that they need to call upon all States, “To review their procedures, practices and legislation regarding the surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data, including mass surveillance…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.”

We will soon see whether or not countries take this UN resolution seriously through their evaluation of their own laws and methods of surveillance. However, for a non-binding UN resolution on human rights to spark response from citizens and political leaders around the world, it is definitely an issue to follow.

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Shona Bewley has a degree in International Development and Communications from York University.She is a travel addict looking for her next adventure and loves to write about current issues affecting her generation.