A/RES/79/175 The right to privacy in the digital age 2023 10 on the right to privacy in the digital age and resolutions 32/13 of 1 July 2016, 11 38/7 of 5 July 2018, 12 47/16 of 13 July 2021 13 and 57/29 of 11 October 2024 14 on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet, Recalling also the outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society, 15 Taking note of the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, 16 the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression 17 and the relevant reports of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, 18 as well as the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, 19 Welcoming the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to privacy in the digital age, noting with interest the reports of the High Commissioner thereon, 20 and recalling the expert workshops on the right to privacy in the digital age held on 19 and 20 February 2018 and on 27 and 28 May 2020, Taking note of the Secretary-General’s initiatives on the new technologies, including the Call to Action for Human Rights, launched in 2020, the road map for digital cooperation, launched in June 2020, the United Nations Global Principles for Information Integrity, the establishment in May 2024 of the Guidance on Human Rights Due Diligence for Digital Technology Use and the establishment of the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and noting the discussions that take place annually in the Internet Governance Forum, which is a multi-stakeholder forum for the discussion of Internet governance issues and whose mandate was extended by the General Assembly in 2015 for another 10 years, and recognizing that effectively addressing the challenges relating to the right to privacy in the context of modern communications technology requires an ongoing, concerted multi-stakeholder engagement, Welcoming the convening of the Summit of the Future on 22 and 23 September 2024 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, and reiterating the need for adequate support for developing countries to implement actions in the Pact for the Future, 21 including the Global Digital Compact, 22 that are relevant to the right to privacy and to bridging the digital divides within and between countries, Recalling that, in line with the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework, 23 the responsibility to respect human rights requires that business __________________ Ibid., Seventy-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/78/53/Add.1), chap. III, sect. A. Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A. 12 Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. VI, sect. A. 13 Ibid., Seventy-sixth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/76/53), chap. VII, sect. A. 14 Ibid., Seventy-ninth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/79/53/Add.1), chap. III, sect. A. 15 Resolution 70/125. 16 A/HRC/43/52, A/HRC/46/37, A/HRC/49/55, A/HRC/52/37, A/HRC/55/46, A/75/147, A/76/220, A/77/196, A/78/310 and A/79/193. 17 A/HRC/44/49, A/HRC/50/29, A/HRC/53/25, A/HRC/56/53, A/75/261, A/76/258 and A/78/288. 18 A/HRC/44/50, A/HRC/50/23, A/HRC/50/42 and A/75/184. 19 A/HRC/44/57, A/75/329 and A/76/434. 20 A/HRC/48/31 and A/HRC/51/17. 21 Resolution 79/1. 22 Ibid., annex I. 23 A/HRC/17/31, annex. 10 11 2/12 24-24216