UN Expands Anti-Spying Resolution to Include Metadata Collection
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A United Nations committee agreed to adopt a softened version of a resolution on limiting government surveillance and the mass collection of personal data, after the U.S. and its allies invoked the need for effective intelligence-gathering to combat terrorism.
The General Assembly’s human rights committee today adopted by consensus the non-binding resolution, which invoked possible dangers posed to privacy rights by the mass collection of metadata, such as bulk records of phone calls gathered by the U.S. National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.