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Dear Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Pichai,
In the past few years, you have pioneered important transparency tools to help your platform users understand, learn about and contextualise the political advertising they see. We agree that advertiser verification processes and ad repositories are key safeguards against online manipulation and misinformation. However, we are saddened to observe that these benefits have not been equally distributed among your global user base.
Each platform operates fluctuating and often widely differing transparency standards for different countries. While some users benefit from seeing political advertising in an ad repository, others do not. Where some users are offered detailed information about a political ad, others are not. There are no legitimate or otherwise publicly disclosed reasons justifying this difference in treatment.
Access Now 25 January 2021 | 12:01 pm
As state and corporate actors continue to maximize data collection and retention, governments worldwide must take concrete measures to address existing and emerging threats to affirm and safeguard the fundamental human right to privacy. Since the Snowden revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly and U.N. Human Rights Council have considered
resolutions on privacy in the digital age every year, each taking turns to pass the text biennially. The series of resolutions have progressively elaborated international standards on how to secure the right to privacy online, including contending with the risks posed by new and emerging technologies.
UN: To protect privacy in the digital age, world governments can and must do more
As State and corporate actors continue to maximize data collection and retention, governments worldwide must take concrete measures to address existing and emerging threats to affirm and safeguard the fundamental human right to privacy. Since the Snowden Revelations of mass surveillance in 2013, the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly and U.N. Human Rights Council have considered resolutions on privacy in the digital age every year, each taking turns to pass the text biennially. The series of resolutions have progressively elaborated international standards on how to secure the right to privacy online, including contending with the risks posed by new and emerging technologies.