On March 26, 2015, the Human Rights Council created the mandate of a Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. According to the press release, the Council “called on all countries to support this new mandate, including by providing all necessary information requested by the Special Rapporteur, to respond promptly to his or her urgent appeals and other communications, to consider favourably his or her requests to visit their countries, and to consider implementing the recommendations made in his or her reports.” The mandate was created pursuant to General Assembly resolution 68/167, which addresses the right to privacy in the digital age and expresses concern at the “negative impact that surveillance and/or interception of communications . . . may have on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights.”