Members of the United Nations’ Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council have called for a worldwide moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology. Following the leak revealing the global abuse of cyber-surveillance powers, the group is advocating for a “robust regulatory framework to prevent, mitigate and redress the negative human rights impact” of what they called “highly dangerous” tech. “International human rights law requires all States to adopt robust domestic legal safeguards to protect individuals from unlawful surveillance, invasion of their privacy or threats to their freedom of expression, assembly and association,” they said.
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