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
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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.
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