(VOVworld)-An anti-spying draft resolution written by Germany and Brazil has been submitted to the United Nations amid the US surveillance scandal.  

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

The draft resolution put forward on Friday would reaffirm "the right to privacy and not to be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, home or correspondence." Furthermore, the draft resolution would also reaffirm the "same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular the right to privacy, including in the context of the surveillance of communications." This comes as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff have both condemned the widespread spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA scandal took even broader dimensions when Snowden revealed information about its espionage activities targeting friendly countries.