A UN rights committee has passed a right to privacy resolution drafted by Germany and Brazil. The issue led international outrage over reports of US spying on German and Brazilian leaders. The seeks to extend personal privacy rights to all people after reports of massive global eavesdropping by the U.S. National Security Agency. Fifty-five countries, including France, Russia and North Korea, co-sponsored the text, which made a light reference to the U.S. spying after the leakage by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden

Brazil and Germany drafted the resolution after reports leaked by Edward Snowden that the NSA had listened in to the mobile phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the office communications of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.