Biden Administration to Support Controversial UN Cyber Treaty
NotSanguine writes:
Bloomberg* is reporting on a UN-backed treaty which could become the global framework for investigating cybercriminals.
From TFA:
The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it could be misused by authoritarian regimes, according to senior government officials.
The agreement would be the first legally binding UN agreement on cybersecurity and could become a global legal framework for countries to cooperate on preventing and investigating cybercriminals. However, critics fear it could be used by authoritarian states to try to pursue dissidents overseas or collect data from political opponents.
Still, the officials said there are persuasive reasons to support the treaty. For instance, it would advance the criminalization of child sexual-abuse material and nonconsensual spreading of intimate images, they said.
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While the treaty is expected to pass the vote in the UN, it was highly unlikely it would be ratified by the US government unless there was implementation of human-rights controls, the official said.
What say you, Soylentils? "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear?", "We can't let those authoritarian scum further oppress their dissidents!" Something in between?
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