General Assembly Resolution #557 “Prohibition Of Unwarranted Digital Surveillance” (Category: Civil Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
The World Assembly,
Cognizant of the desire of many World Assembly states to stalk, watch, and otherwise intrude into the lives of their citizens;
Eyeing GA#557 as a resolution seeking to prevent this invasive behavior;
Dismayed at GA#557’s many failures of proper regulation, crafting opportune conditions for the perpetuation of digital surveillance in an entirely legal manner still clearly constituting unwarranted surveillance, including:
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The lack of qualifications necessary to issue a warrant under section 1b, allowing for the issuing of warrants for any number of trivialities, and no limit on the number of warrants which can be issued per request, allowing potentially infinite warrants with a single issuance;
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Permitting the digital surveillance of “foreign entities” (with no clear indication of who that applies to) for “active threat[s] to national security” (with no clear provision of who poses such a threat);
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Exempting the “acquisition of data accessible in the public sphere” from the definition of unwarranted digital surveillance, where what constitutes the public sphere is entirely unclear;
Outraged that 3a’s provision that suspicion of unlawful activities may not be “primarily” based on race, gender, nationality, etc., but may still be based in part on these factors, continuing to allow for government discrimination;
Noting GA#557’s concern for unauthorized disclosure of data collected through mass surveillance, yet concerned by its failure to require any privacy or security precautions for such data;
Confused by the exclusion of warrantless “voluntary acquisition of data by a police informant”, without specifying what data police informants may acquire on unwitting subjects;
Hereby repeals GA#557 "Prohibition of Unwarranted Digital Surveillance”.