Brazil Joins Germany in Seeking UN Probe of U.S. Spying

Brazil and Germany are pushing for a United Nations inquiry scrutinizing the U.S. National Security Agency for possible violations of privacy rights in surveillance activities at home and abroad.

Diplomats from the two countries today began circulating a draft resolution calling on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate “the protection of the right to privacy in the context of domestic and extraterritorial, including massive, surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data,” according to a copy obtained by Bloomberg News.