国連：デジタル時代のプライバシー権（The right to privacy in the digital age）

下記の記事が出ている。

　UN Committee Adopts Resolution on Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
　Council Foreign Relations: December 1, 2014
　http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2014/12/01/un-committee-adopts-resolution-on-right-to-privacy-in-the-digital-age/

国連の文書は，下記のところにある。

　68/167. The right to privacy in the digital age
　Sixty-ninth session
　Third Committee
　Agenda item 68 (b)
　http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/68/167

重要な部分は，下記のとおり。

Reaffirming that States must ensure that any measures taken to combat
terrorism are in compliance with their obligations under international law, in
particular international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law,
1. 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
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;
3. Affirms that the same rights that people have offline must also be
protected online, including the right to privacy;
4. Calls upon all States:
(a) To respect and protect the right to privacy, including in the context of
digital communication;
(b) 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;
(c) 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;
(d) 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;
5. 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;
6. 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”.