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Governments call for spyware regulations in UN Security Council meeting
Several governments participated in a meeting on the proliferation of commercial spyware at the United Nations Security Council.
While the meeting was mostly informal and didn’t end with any concrete proposals, most of the countries involved, including France, South Korea, and the United Kingdom, agreed that governments should take action to control the proliferation and abuse of commercial spyware. Poland’s representative pointed at local legislative efforts to put “more control, including by the judiciary, on the relevant operational activities of the security and intelligence services,” while also recognizing that spyware can be used in a legal way. China’s representative criticized the meeting itself, saying that discussing “the so-called commercial spyware and the maintenance of international peace and security is putting the cart before the horse when compared to the more harmful proliferation activities by governments.”
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