No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

The world’s nations are now petitioning the United Nations to stop America from running its nefarious surveillance programs.

Why not petition the Easter Bunny to help you?

The U.N. already has made treaties prohibiting blanket surveillance programs, but nobody is enforcing them. Article 12 is a U.N. prohibition against invasion of privacy. So what is the consequence of U.S. violations?

The confidential memo reveals that the NSA encourages senior officials in its “customer” departments, such the White House, State and the Pentagon, to share their “Rolodexes” so the agency can add the phone numbers of leading foreign politicians to their surveillance systems.

The document notes that one unnamed US official handed over 200 numbers, including those of the 35 world leaders, none of whom is named. These were immediately “tasked” for monitoring by the NSA.

So the first question any foreign national leader should ask is, “Who in the US government endangered our security by revealing our telephone numbers to spies?”

This form of state voyeurism isn’t going to stop just because America’s allies don’t like it. No nation is exempt from US government spying at the NSA, so the only way to be 100% secure is to communicate face to face.

What is most concerning is that all communication is fed into a massive government database, retained indefinitely, and for unknown purposes, which is a huge red flag that liberty worldwide is in danger.