Draft of Anti-Spying UN Resolution Weakened to Suit US, UK

[Indi Guy]

Source: Firstpost. India



United Nations: A draft U.N. resolution that some diplomats said suggested spying in foreign countries could be a human rights violation has been weakened to appease the United States, Britain and others ahead of a vote by a U.N. committee next week.

Germany and Brazil drafted the resolution calling for an end to excessive electronic surveillance. It does not name specific countries but comes after former U.S. contractor Edward Snowden released details of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency.

The U.N. General Assembly’s Third Committee, which deals with human rights issues, is to vote on the draft next week, and it is then expected to be put to a vote by the 193-nation General Assembly in December.

The initial draft would have had the assembly declare it is “deeply concerned at human rights violations and abuses that may result from the conduct of any surveillance of communications, including extraterritorial surveillance of communications.” But the language has been changed to “deeply concerned at the negative impact that surveillance and/or interception of communications, including extraterritorial surveillance and/or interception of communications, as well as the collection of personal data, in particular when carried out on a mass scale, may have on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights.”

A senior U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the new language as a compromise that “sort of breaks the link between extraterritorial surveillance and human rights violations.”...

Read more: http://www.firstpost.com/india/draft-of-anti-spying-un-resolution-weakened-to-suit-us-uk-1243075.html

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So, by this language, it appears that "We The People" are the only ones who's human rights are being violated (if human rights can be equated with our Constitutionally/lawfully guaranteed rights). Therefore the NSA successfully pressured the UN into agreeing with them that our rights as citizens visa vi their surveillance are secondary to the rights of the citizens of other nations.

Also, If the UN is pulling its punches, it kinda' make one wonder what manner of dirt the NSA might have on some world leasers, doesn't it?

[blkmusclmachine]

1. No dirt. Just complicity. Deep complicity.

Welcome to 1984

One World Government

[JDPriestly]

2. No dirty dirt. Complicity, some but no other country has the capacity to pry and snoop that ours

does. What other country wastes its resources on hiring 35,000 people to do its snooping. Ridiculous.