UN negotiators convened this week in Vienna, Austria, to formulate a draft cybercrime treaty – and privacy and human rights groups are alarmed. Not surprising, given Russia's been pushing this treaty Details:
Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship
Barbora Bukovská, senior director for law and policy with ARTICLE 19, a UK-based human rights organization, said many of the proposed new crimes are speech-based offenses. Raman Jit Singh Chima, senior international counsel and global cybersecurity lead for Access Now, a US-based digital rights group, said that the goal of a cybercrime treaty should be to make people more secure, but the current draft proposal does the opposite by failing to make affordances for good-faith security security research.
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