The Nobel Prize-winning writers says to the NSA surveillance 'is being systematically abused'

Some of the most famous writers in the world have signed an open resource against the national security agency who says that massive surveillance by the U.S. Government chills freedom of thought.

Awards Nobel Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee, Elfriede Jelinek, Günter Grass and Tomas Transtr?mer are among hundreds of "writers against mass surveillance" around the world that have signed the open appeal, which calls on Governments and companies to respect the privacy rights of citizens.

"Surveillance violates the privacy and freedom of the commitments of thought and opinion," said the appeal. "As we have seen, this power is being systematically abused."

Other notable signatories include Richard Ford, Margaret Atwood, Umberto Eco, Yann Martel, Dave Eggers, Colum McCann, Sapphire, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo. In Europe the appeal was released on Tuesday, human rights day.

The writers statement asks the Nations United to create an international law of digital rights. The United States, along with surveillance partners including the United Kingdom and Australia, have tried to weaken a U.N. resolution expressing its support for the digital privacy.

"We are really very concerned about mass surveillance," said Janne Teller, a Danish writer who helped organize the open message. "We think it is completely undermining the democracy, and we are shocked that more people instead of weapons..."

Teller said he does not believe that writers are more than citizens threatened by massive surveillance, but their work makes them particularly in tune with its dangers.

"I think it is very important when you have 560 more or less of the greatest contemporary writers from around the world, expressing a very serious concern, because they are people who work in the large philosophical questions of life, always," said Teller. "We hope that their major concern for politicians".

Last month, the rights group's survey of pen writers in freedom that found an "effect" of the revelations of massive surveillance of the NSA. American writers polled by the group said that they have avoided mention of controversial issues and criticizing the Government.

Teller, who lives in New York, said he expects Americans to unite in outrage writers on massive surveillance by adding their names to a public version of the appeal.

"This undermines all the freedoms and values that otherwise I love America," Teller said. "So that I can not understand why the Americans can accept massive surveillance in this way, is completely against the ideals of freedom."

Read the full document, "A Stand for democracy in the Digital Age", below. A complete list of signatories is available here.

In recent months, the measure of mass surveillance has become common knowledge. With a few clicks of the mouse state can access your mobile device, email, your social networks and Internet searches. You can follow their political inclinations and activities in collaboration with Internet companies, collects and stores its data and therefore can predict their consumption and behavior.

The basic pillar of democracy is the inviolable integrity of the person. Human integrity extends beyond the physical body. In their thoughts and in their personal environments and communications, all human beings have the right to remain unnoticed and unmolested.

This fundamental human right has been null and void by misuse of technological advances by States and corporations for the purpose of mass surveillance.

A person under surveillance is no longer free; a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy. To hold some validity, they must apply our democratic rights in virtual as real space.

* Surveillance violates freedom of sphere and commitments of private thought and opinion.

* Mass surveillance treats everyone as a potential suspect. It dumps one of our historic triumphs, the presumption of innocence.

* Monitoring makes the transparent individual, while the State and the society operate in secret. As we have seen, this power is being abused systemically.

* Surveillance is theft. This information is not public property: belongs us to us. When used to predict our behavior, we are stealing something else: the principle of free will essential to democratic freedom.

We claim the right of all persons, as democratic citizens, to determine the extent to which your personal data stored and processed can be collected and by whom; for information about where are stored the data and how is being used; for the cancellation of their data if it has been illegally collected and stored.

We call on all States and corporations to respect these rights.

We make a call to all citizens to stand up and defend these rights.

Call us at the United Nations to recognize the fundamental importance of the protection of civil rights in the digital age and to create an International Bill of digital rights.

We call on Governments to sign and adhere to a Convention.

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