Diplomats debate Russia-backed rules on what can be said online
An international treaty on countering cybercrime is in danger of becoming an"expansive global surveillance pact" that will trample data privacy and human rights, activists warned UN delegates as they meet in New York City this week to hammer out an updated proposal.for over two years, aims to define what online crime actually is and how member states can better work together to curb the growing global problem.
"That's where we're at," said Katitza Rodriguez, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's policy director for global privacy."The draft treaty provides the legal basis for governments to make highly intrusive surveillance mechanisms like interception of content and real time tracking of metadata, available 'to the fullest extent possible' to foreign governments for almost any sort of criminal investigation of a serious crime with minimal safeguards.
Specifically: the draft would authorize police to help foreign governments investigate activities that may not be a punishable offense in both countries, she explained. "The dual criminality principle safeguards human rights, but it is treated as optional," Rodriguez said.
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