Human Rights and Privacy Groups Launch Global Action to Oppose Mass Surveillance

November 26, 2013 -by EFF.

Petition Urges Support for 13 International “Necessary and Proportionate” Principles. An international coalition of human rights and privacy organizations today launched an action center to oppose mass surveillance on the global stage: necessaryandproportionate.org/take­action. The new petition site went live just as the United Nations voted on a resolution to recognize the need for the international community to come to terms with new digital surveillance techniques.