A/RES/75/176
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 72 (b)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
questions, including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/478/Add.2, para. 89)]
75/176.
The right to privacy in the digital age
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights 1 and relevant international human rights treaties, including the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 2 and the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 3 as well as the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, 4
Recalling General Assembly resolutions 68/167 of 18 December 2013, 69/166
of 18 December 2014, 71/199 of 19 December 2016 and 73/179 of 17 December 2018
on the right to privacy in the digital age, and resolution 45/95 of 14 December 1990
on guidelines for the regulation of computerized personal data files, as well as Human
Rights Council resolutions 28/16 of 26 March 2015, 5 34/7 of 23 March 2017, 6 37/2
of 22 March 2018 7 and 42/15 of 26 September 2019 8 on the right to privacy in the
digital age and resolutions 32/13 of 1 July 2016 9 and 38/7 of 5 July 2018 10 on the
promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet,
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Resolution 217 A (III).
See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex.
Ibid.
A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53),
chap. III, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III.
Ibid., Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. VI, sect. A.
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