Governments must be wary of the growing capacity...

Governments must be wary of the growing capacity for unlawful and arbitrary surveillance as technology quickly advances, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday before the U.N. Human Rights Council (http://bit.ly/1qKL72P). The commissioner’s office said it submitted a report (http://bit.ly/1yqH5yH) that concluded “the technological platforms upon which global political, economic and social life are increasingly reliant are not only vulnerable to mass surveillance, they may actually facilitate it.” The U.N. General Assembly requested the report and will hear its findings during the General Assembly’s 69th session, beginning Tuesday.