EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Companies’ Data Collection

Re:EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Compani... by refurb on Friday April 14, 2017 @01:39PM (#14115805)

The UN can make whatever they want a right. They don't really have any way to enforce these rights.

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Re:EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Compani... by ocdtrekkie on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:50PM (#14116741)

This is true, and I wasn't claiming anything further. However, according to Wikipedia, the United States was one of the 48 countries who voted to proclaim the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There were 8 abstentions, but none opposed.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a document which is globally accepted, therefore, to represent what human rights should be. The fact that the US, the supposed "land of the free", falls short of this, is just particularly sad.

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Re:EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Compani... by Silhouette on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:17PM (#14116483)

[The UN] don't really have any way to enforce these rights.

However, the countries that belong to the UN do. If enough of them are willing to put their money where their mouth is, which is going to be a matter of local political pressures as much as anything, the picture changes.

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Re:EFF’s “Spying on Students” Report Highlights Tech Compani... by snowpanda on Friday April 14, 2017 @02:12PM (#14116020)

The UN shouldn't have any power. Especially because of things like this (among others):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/09...

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