This week, the United Nations human rights council announced the establishment of a special new role to look into issues pertaining to privacy, in the wake of the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations. Information activists argue that such an individual could play a vital role in protecting citizens' right to privacy. Guess which country said it couldn't support such a resolution? South Africa.
A resolution calling for a UN Special Rapporteur on privacy, spearheaded by Germany and Brazil, stemmed from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's expose of the extent to which government agencies in the US and UK in particular were carrying out covert surveillance on their citizens.
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