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"A new draft of the controversial
United Nations Cybercrime Treaty has only
heightened concerns that the treaty will criminalize expression and dissent,
create extensive surveillance powers, and facilitate cross-border repression.
The proposed treaty, originally aimed at combating cybercrime, has morphed into
an expansive surveillance treaty, raising the risk of overreach in both
national and international investigations. The new draft retains a
controversial provision allowing states to compel engineers or employees to
undermine security measures, posing a threat to encryption.
This new draft not only disregards but also deepens our concerns, empowering
nations to cast a wider net by accessing data stored by companies abroad,
potentially in violation of other nations’ privacy laws. It perilously broadens
its scope beyond the cybercrimes specifically defined in the Convention,
encompassing a long list of non-cybercrimes. This draft retains the concerning
issue of expanding the scope of evidence collection and sharing across borders
for any serious crime, including those crimes that blatantly violate human
rights law. Furthermore, this new version overreaches in investigating and
prosecuting crimes beyond those detailed in the treaty; until now such power
was limited to only the crimes defined in article 6-16 of the convention.
We are deeply troubled by the blatant disregard of our input, which moves the
text further away from consensus. This isn't just an oversight; it's a
significant step in the wrong direction."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
