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UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, Joseph Cannataci, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and all UN member states:

Despite advances in curtailing illegal mass surveillance, powerful governments are still working to weaken online privacy and maintain the right to collect data on all of us, all of the time. A global problem requires a global response: an international treaty, convention, or legal instrument to ensure our right to privacy, the right to free and secure communications, and the protection of those who act in defense of privacy and democracy in our public policy. 
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We need a global treaty to protect our privacy
If you're reading this right now, your emails, phone calls, and private chats are still being vacuumed up by a global mass surveillance system. The best way to take back our privacy is acting together, worldwide.

Two years ago, the world found out about secret surveillance programs putting us all under the dragnet. Governments used to secrecy were forced to defend their spying, and citizen pressure forced tech companies to make fixes to keep our conversations more secure.

But now the surveillance state -- led by the NSA and the GCHQ in Britain -- is fighting back hard, with new efforts in backrooms and courtrooms to protect their right to spy on all of us. This week while world governments gather at the UN, there's a unique opportunity to push back. The UN has a brand new Privacy Chief, empowered to set global standards to protect us from illegal surveillance, and he has abold new ideathat needs our backing right now: an international treaty to protect all of our rights to privacy.

Sign now and spread the word to push our leaders to get behind the obvious -- privacy from mass illegal surveillance is a human right that deserves to be protected by law:

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