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https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/23/expanded-spying-powers/#in-russia-crime-cybers-you>
"If there's one thing I learned from all my years as an NGO delegate to UN
specialized agencies, it's that UN treaties are
dangerous, liable to capture
by unholy alliances of authoritarian states and rapacious global capitalists.
Most of my UN work was on copyright and "paracopyright," and my track record
was 2:0; I helped kill a terrible treaty (the WIPO Broadcast Treaty) and helped
pass a great one (the Marrakesh Treaty on the rights of people with
disabilities to access copyrighted works):
https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/marrakesh/
It's been many years since I had to shave and stuff myself into a suit and tie
and go to Geneva, and I don't miss it – and thankfully, I have colleagues who
do that work, better than I ever did. Yesterday, I heard from one such EFF
colleague, Katitza Rodriguez, about the Cybercrime Treaty, which is about to
pass, and which is, to put it mildly,
terrifying:
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/un-cybercrime-draft-convention-dangerously-expands-state-surveillance-powers>
Look, cybercrime is a real thing, from pig butchering to ransomware, and
there's real, global harms that can be attributed to it. Cybercrime is
transnational, making it hard for cops in any one jurisdiction to handle it. So
there's a reason to think about formal international standards for fighting
cybercrime.
But that's not what's in the Cybercrime Treaty."
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
