A/RES/73/179 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 21 January 2019 Seventy-third session Agenda item 74 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2018 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/589/Add.2)] 73/179. 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, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 3 Recalling General Assembly resolutions 68/167 of 18 December 2013, 69/166 of 18 December 2014 and 71/199 of 19 December 2016 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 4 and 34/7 of 23 March 2017 5 on the right to privacy in the digital age and resolutions 32/13 of 1 July 2016 6 and 38/7 of 5 July 2018 7 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, 8 __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 18-22275 (E) Resolution 217 A (III). See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 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-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. Resolution 70/125. 230119 *1822275*

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