The Global Commission on Internet Governance (of which I am a member) has put forward a proposal for “a new social compact” among citizens, their elected representatives, law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, businesses, civil-society groups, and programmers and developers. Among the provisions would be the recognition of privacy and personal data protection as a fundamental human right, and a call for clear, precise, and transparently created regulations that set limits on government surveillance and companies’ use of consumer data.