Edit: I shouldn't have made such a short comment, and deserved the downvote, but I think it's true. The US is ripping privacy to shreds and is one of the most powerful members of the UN, do you really think that a watchdog will change anything? It's still a good idea, just for the message it would send, but lets not put our hopes in some supranational entity when we need to be fixing our own shit here under our own rule of law.
Edit: I shouldn't have made such a short comment, and deserved the downvote, but I think it's true. The US is ripping privacy to shreds and is one of the most powerful members of the UN, do you really think that a watchdog will change anything? It's still a good idea, just for the message it would send, but lets not put our hopes in some supranational entity when we need to be fixing our own shit here under our own rule of law.