A/HRC/28/39 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 19 December 2014 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth session Agenda items 2 and 3 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Summary of the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the right to privacy in the digital age Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council decision 25/117. It provides a summary of the panel discussion on the right to privacy in the digital age, held on 12 September 2014, during the twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council. Based on the request of the Human Rights Council, the promotion and protection of the right to privacy in the digital age in the context of domestic and extraterritorial surveillance, the interception of digital communications and the collection of personal data, including on a mass scale, also with a view to identifying challenges and best practices, taking into account the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, were examined in the course of the panel discussion. GE.14-24708 (E) 